ORD. XLI. SCABRID/. 
HUMULUS LUPULUS. THE HOP. 
SYNONYMA, Lupulus salictarius. Fuch. 144; Plin. Hist. Nat.1. 21. n. 
xv. Ger. Em. 885. Lupulus. Camer. Epit. 933-4; Dod. Pempt. 409, 1.; 
n. 1618. Hall. Hist. Lupulus, mas. et femina. Bauh. Pin. 299. 1, 2; 
Raii Hist. 156. Lupulus, seu sativus, seu sylvestris. Park. 176; Trag. 
812, Humulus Lupulus. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1457; Willd. v.iv. 769; Eng. 
Bot. t. 427; Flor. Brit. 1077; Sm. Engl. Fl. v. iv. p. 240; Hook. Fl. Scot. 
1. p. 288; Hook. Br. Fl. p. 436. ' 
Class Dioecia. Order Pentandria. 
Nat. Ord. Scabride, Linn. Urticer, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Male. Calyx five-leaved; corolla 0; anthers with two pores. 
Female. Scales of the catkin, large, concave, oblique, entire.; corolla O; 
- styles, two; seed, one, within a leafy calyx. 
Spec. Char. OQ. 
THE Hop is an indigenous, perennial plant, growing in hedges, flower- 
ing in June and July, and ripening its seeds in September. Sir J, E. Smith 
considers the hop as truly wild in England, notwithstanding the old distich— 
“ Turkeys, carp, hops, pickerel, and beer, 
_ Came into England all in one year.” 
This is supposed to have been in Henry VIII’s reign, a, perhaps, hops 
were first used for making beer, and (as has been the case with some other 
