Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider].

Emil Bretschneider

Date:: 1895

Credit: Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$K. D. = K‘ANG Hi’s Dictionary, the Klany Ju Tsz1 Vien or Chinese Dictionary, published in 1716 by order of the Emperor K‘ang hi. W.D. = Williams’ Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, lb74. Amcen. exot. = E. K/EMPFEr's Amccnitates Exoticce, 1712, in which a great number of Japanese plants are described, sometimes also figured. The Chinese names in Chinese characters are generally added. [See Botanicon sinicum, 1, p. 126.] Kwa wi, a Japanese Botany, illustrated by woodcuts, published in the middle of the last century and translated into French by Dr. L. Sayatier in 1873. [See Botanicon sinicum, I, 09]. Phon zo = Phon zo dzu fu, a large Japanese work on Botany with nearly 1,800 coloured drawings illustrating the Chinese Pen ts‘ao hang mu, and published in 1828. [See Botanicon sinicum, I, p. 100, lion zo dzu fu.~\ So moku = So moku dzu setsu, another Japanese Botany with 1,215 excellent drawings representing herbaceous plants. [See Botanicon sinicum, p. 101.] I quote these drawings in preference to those of the Phon zo. To the latter I generally refer only in the cases in which the plant in question is not mentioned in the So moku as e.g. trees. Thbg. PL jap. = C. P. ThunbERg’s Flora Japonica, 1784. [See Botanicon sinicum, I, p. 126.] Sieb. Icon. — Dr. Ph. Fr. Siebold’s Coloured draw- ings representing Japanese plants, about 600, unpublished. [See Botanicon sinicum, J, p. 127.] Sieb. Zucc. FI. Jap. = Dr. Ph. Fr. Siebold et Dr. Zuccarini, Flora .Japonica, 1835-1870 ; described and pictured 150 plants. [See Botanicon sinicum, p. 127.]$