414 CANNABINACE^. (UEMP 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 involucre. (P. Floridana, iVu«.) — Damp shaded sandy soil near 

 the coast, Florida to North Carolina. June -Aug. (J) — Stem ^°- 1^° long 

 Leaves 6" - 9" long, about the length of the slender petiole. 



5. BCEHMERIA, Jacq. False-Nettle. 



Flowers monoecious or dicecious, in spiked clusters. Caly.x of the sterile 

 flowers 4 - 5-cleft Stamens 4-5. Calyx of the fertile flowers tubular, 4 - 5- 

 toothed or entire. Stigma subulate, hairy. Acheniuni elliptical, enclosed in 

 the persistent calyx. — Rough herbs with alteniate or opposite pctioled leaves. 



1. B. cylindrica, "Willd. Pubescent and rough with straight and hooked 

 hairs ; leaves opposite and alternate, ovate and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ser- 

 rate, rounded and 3-ncrvcd at the base, on long or short petioles ; spikes axil- 

 lary, mostly leafy at the summit, the fertile ones compactly flowered, short; the 

 sterile interrui)tcd, and sometimes longer than the leaves. (B. lateriflora, Mtilil.) 

 — Swampy thickets, Florida, and northward. July- Sept. )\. — Stem I'^-S*' 

 high, mostly simple. Leaves 2' -5' long. 



Order 123. CANNABINACEiE. (Hemp Family.) 



Erect or twining herbs, with opposite incised or lobcd and stipulate 

 leaves, and di(Ecious flowers. Sterile flowers racemose or panicled. Ca- 

 lyx 5-sepalous. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, not inflexed in the bud. 

 Fertile flowers in bracted spikes. Calyx 1 -leaved, embracing the 1 -celled 

 ovary. Ovule solitary, erect. Stigmas 2, subulate, pubescent. Fruit in- 

 dehiscent. Albumen none. Embryo coiled or curved. 



1. HUMULUS, L. Hop. 



Sterile flowers panicled. Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary spikes. 

 Bracts leafy, imbricated, 2-flowered, forming in fmit a membranaceous cone. 

 Calyx enlarged in fruit. Embryo spirally coiled. — A rough perennial twining 

 herb, with cordate 3-5-lobcd leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers. 



1. H. Lupulus, L. — Low grounds along the mountains, Georgia, and 

 northward. June iiiid July. — Stem 6° -10° high. Leaves pctioled, serrate. 

 Achcniuni covered with resinous yellowish odorous grains. 



Order 124. MORACEiE. (Mulberry Family.) 



Trees or .shrubs, with milky juice, alternate leaves, with large decidu- 

 ous stipules, and monoecious or dioecious flowers, crowded in .spikes or 



