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useless male individuals as ‘female’ and the fruit-bearing 
female ones as ‘male’. A female (pistillate) cultivated 
specimen in the Clifford Herbarium at the British Mu- 
seum (Natural History), London, is taken as lectotype 
of the name Cannabis sativa L. 
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