MULBERRY FAMILY 



Fruiting Aments. — Look like hemlock cones, pale 

 yellow-green; at the base of each yellow bract, and 

 covered by it, are two akenes, yellow, covered and dotted 

 with yellow resinous aromatic glands. 



The Wild Hop is an extremely interesting 

 plant. In midsummer it is lost in the green of 

 the thicket, or unobserved as it climbs up out of 

 the tangle and into the sunlight, but when the 

 soft mellow rays of September come and one goes 

 afield its gold-green clusters of Hops festoon the 

 topmost branches of the thicket, cover and adorn 

 the rugged stump or the unsightly fence. 



The fruiting cone-like spike consists of many 

 thin, concave, yellow-green bracts. Covered and 

 secure against harm at the base of each are two 

 yellow seeds, thickly sprinkled with aromatic 

 resinous dots. The more of these the better the 

 fruit, for it is they that give the value to the 

 Hop for beer-making, and supply the aromatic 

 bitter that is so highly regarded. 



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