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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$Wen chow 45 piculs,—p. 344 (GG), from Canton 42 piculs.— Ibid., p. 455 (GOG) Places of production: Che kiang, Kuang tung, Kuang si. The Phon zo [VI, i] figures sub 3ffjJ a fern with bipinnate fronds. Fiianchet, Knum. PL Jap. [II, 204] refers this drawing with a ? to Onoclea germanica, Willd. 14.—jlf kuan cliung. P., XIIA, 18.— 7’., CXXXIIL Comp. Rh ya, 110. Pen king :->-Kuan cluing. Other names : PI' kuan tsie, V4m kuan iLi't, 0{ po Lou (hundred heads), /jg hu kuan, jf|[ Jf'f plea fu. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature slightly cold. Poisonous. Pie lu:—The kuan cliung is also called ^ mm tslao clLi Lou (herbaceous owl’s head). It grows in the mountain valleys of Yiian shan [unknown to me, App. 41G], in Yuan kii [in Shan tung, App. 415] and on the Sliao shi mountain [in Ho nan, App. 281]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the shade. T‘ao Hung-kiNG:—The kuan cliung is common in Middle China. Its leaves resemble those of the great hue [a fern. See Rh ya, 185]. The root in its shape, colour and hairy appearance recalls the head of an owl [t\ supra]. Su SUNG [11th cent.]:—The kuan cliung, otherwise called HL j$l feng reel tslao (phoenix-tail plant) is common in the provinces of Sheu si [now Shen si and E. Kan su, App. 284] and Ho tung [Shan si, App. 80] and also in King and Siang [Hu pei, App. 145, 305]. Li Shi-CHEN :—The kuan cliung is a common plant in the mountains, in shady places. Several stalks issue from the same root. They arc as thick as a quill, slippery. The leaves are in opposite pairs, resemble those of the kou tsi$