414 CANNABINACEJ. (HEMP FAMILY.) 
2. P. debilis, Forst. Pubescent with straight and hooked hairs inter 
mixed; stem much branched, pellucid; leaves ovate, mostly acuminate, but — 
obtuse, roughened with elevated dots; clusters loose, spreading; flowers as — 
long as the involuere. (P. Floridana, Nutt.) — Damp shaded sandy soil near 
the coast, Florida to North Carolina. June- Aug. @ — Stem 3? - 1j? long. 
Leaves 6" — 9" long, about the length of the slender petiole. 
5. BOEHMERIA, Jacq. Farsre-NETTLE. 
Flowers monecious or diccious, in spiked clusters. Calyx of the sterile 
flowers 4 — 5-cleft. Stamens 4-5. Calyx of the fertile flowers tubular, 4-5 
toothed or entire. Stigma subulate, hairy. Achenium elliptical, enclosed in 
the persistent calyx. — Rough herbs with alternate or opposite petioled leaves. : 
l. B. cylindrica, Willd. Pubescent and rough with straight and hooked — 
hairs ; leaves opposite and alternate, ovate and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sêt- E 
rate, rounded and 3-nerved at the base, on long or short petioles ; spikes axil- 
lary, mostly leafy at the summit, the fertile ones compactly flowered, short; the 
sterile interrupted, and sometimes longer than the leaves. (B. lateriflora, Muhl) — 
— Swampy thickets, Florida, and northward. J uly- Sept. y — Stem pu 
high, mostly simple. Leaves 2'~5’ long. E 
Oxver 128. CANNABINACEJE. (Hemp Fawr) —— 
Erect or twining herbs, with opposite incised or lobed and stipulate aS 
leaves, and dicecious flowers. Sterile flowers racemose or panicled. jr aps 
lyx 5-sepalous. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, not inflexed in the bud. 
Fertile flowers in bracted spikes. Calyx 1-leaved, embracing the 1-elled 
ovary. Ovule solitary, erect. Stigmas 2, subulate, pubescent. Fruita 
dehiscent. Albumen none. Embryo coiled or curved. è 
l. HUMULUS, L. Hor. : 
Sterile flowers panicled. Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary pre 
Bracts leafy, imbricated, 2-flowered, forming in fruit a membranaceous come 
Calyx enlarged in fruit. Embryo spirally coiled.— A rough perennial want 
herb, with cordate 3~5-lobed leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers: = 
l. H. Lupulus, L.— Low grounds along the mountains, Georgia, and. 
northward. June and July.— Stem 6°- 10° high. Leaves petioled, se 
Achenium covered with resinous yellowish odorous grains. a 
Onprn 124. MORACEZJE. (MULBERRY Fawn) 
qus cde " a diad flowers, crowded in spik 
