290 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 

 FAMILY 40. CANNABINACE^E. HEMP FAMILY 



272. HOP 

 HUMULUS LUPULUS L. 



Not common; a tangle of vines grew in a thicket on the shore 

 of the lake in front of Green's. They did not seem to be doing very 

 well, and were probably escapes from cultivation. A number of 

 thrifty hop-vines bearing a good crop of hops were found in woods 

 along the outlet near its mouth, which were probably native. Wild 

 hops grow in considerable abundance and quite thriftily in rich 

 black moist soil in various parts of the state. 



273. HEMP 



CANNABIS SATIVA L. 



A patch along the railroad near the ice-houses, and a rather ex- 

 tensive patch southeast of the lake, in somewhat open woodland 

 bordering the east side of Inlet marsh. In autumn the birds col- 

 lected in considerable numbers about the patch in the woods, to 

 procure seed. Coming up and leaved out by the ice-houses May 

 13, 1901. It is not known how the seed was introduced. Within 

 recent years, farmers settling in the neighborhood of the extensive 

 flat prairies of rich black soil near Walkerton, Indiana, observing 

 these swamps thickly overgrown with tall nettles, tried raising 

 hemp on them; the fields seen in 1909 were bearing heavy crops, 

 and the venture seemed eminently successful. 



FAMILY 41. URTICACE^E. NETTLE FAMILY 

 274. STINGING OR GREAT NETTLE 



URTICA DIOICA L. 



Not common; found occasionally in waste places. In some 

 parts of the state it grows abundantly in broken up, flat, mucky 

 prairies. 



275. SLENDER OR TALL WILD NETTLE 



URTICA GRACILIS Ait. 



Common west of the lake, toward the tamarack, and in a gully 

 east of the lake. 



276. CANADA NETTLE; WOOD NETTLE 



URTICASTRUM DIVARICATUM (L.) Kuntze 



Quite abundant and unusually tall, in low woods by Overmyer's 

 field ; also in a gully east of the lake. A low, rather inconspicuous 



