166 Caricography. 
thick, or oblong-cylindric and less in thickness, approximate 
and subsessile, sometimes the lower more remote and often 
rather long exsertly pedunculate, erect, densely flowered ; 
stigmas three ; fruit ovate-conic, ventricose, long rostrate and 
round, bicuspidate, nerved, glabrous, divaricate ; pistillate 
scale ovate and acuminate, or ovate, lanceolate, often three 
nerved, about one third the length of the fruit. Colour of 
be plant a bright but not deep green—sometimes rather yel- 
owish 
The figure in this Vol. shows a common form of this spe- 
cies ; if the lower spike be supposed to be wanting, the fig. 
shows the C, lupulina of most authors. 
ey in May—grows in marshes and about ponds— 
"The pistillate spikes of this large and beautiful species dif- 
fer much in length. Often they greatly pa the fruit of 
the common Hop, Humulus lupulus, from which the species 
received its name ;—often they are much longer, and of less 
an the shorter. "The figs. in Schk. are not very 
excellent ; that on tab. Ddd ce a common form of the 
spike,—while that on tab. [iii represents a rare variety in 
which the fruit is much more ovate and inflated at the base 
than is common. It is not clear that this fig. was not drawn 
from a specimen of C. retrorsa, Schw. in which the fruit was 
only in a sm degree reflexed. The reference of C. lurida, 
Wahl. in Rees’ Cye. to C, intumescens, Rudge, is doubtless 
incorrect, 
8. polystachia, Torrey. Spicis fructiferis Sag perlongo- 
eylindraceis, infime remota et longo-pedunculat 
This variety chiefly differs in the greater foil d num- 
ber of the spikes, which are commonly five, and often nearly 
three inches in “Tength, The fruit is not quite so much in- 
flated—leaves wider, ensiform, nearly half an inch wide— 
practs very large and se Ae often exceeding a foot in 
y are gigantic. 
owers in May and 4% in i 1 hihids 
Phillipstown, N. x. —Dr. B Pert ts on the high lands, 
Note. Figures of the following species accom this 
er; sai ha given in this volume. ae vt a 
3 e as are spikes usually, on “this ver a 
