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Grains, Part II

This page is a dedicated illustration plate. In traditional Chinese botanical woodblock printing, the descriptive text and the corresponding image were often printed on facing or sequential pages.

Illustrated Investigation of the Names and Realities of Plants: Grains — Page 968

[Botanical Illustration: Smooth-headed Barnyard Millet]

This large-scale woodcut depicts a mature cereal plant, identified in the previous text as the Smooth-headed Barnyard Millet original: "光頭稗子" (guāngtóu bàizi). The illustration shows a central stalk with long, lanceolate (spear-shaped) leaves featuring prominent midribs. At the top of the plant, several dense seed heads are clustered together. In keeping with its "smooth-headed" name, the grain spikes are depicted without the long, bristly awns found on other wild varieties, illustrating the "flat, clean, and hairless" characteristics described by the author.