DIOECIA PENTANDRIA. 615 



PENTANDRIA. 



HUMULUS. Gen.pL 11 16. 



MASC. Cal. 5-phyllns. Cor. o. 



FElVT. Cal. i-phyllus, oblique patens, integer, 



Cor-o. Styli 2. Sem. i, intra calycem 



foliatum. 



HUMULUS. Sp. pL i^^'j.{Ger. em, Z?>S'f- i-M) 



Hops. Anglis. 



It is fometimes found in hedges near houfes and 

 gardens, but is probably not indigenous. '^^.Vl. 



The ftalk is weak and climbing •, it creeps up the 

 fupport in a fplral, afcending always from the 

 right hand to the left. This and the leaves are 

 rough to the touch : the upper leaves are heart- 

 fhaped, the lower ones are divided into three 

 lobes, fcrrated on the edges, and grow in pairs 

 on long footftalks. The male flowers grow on 

 a diaina plant, on branched peduncles; thefe- 

 males grow on peduncles, in pairs, of the for.m 

 of a cone, ov Jirobilus, compoied of large oval 

 imbricated calyces, containing each one or two 



feeds. . , ^ . 



The young (hoots boil'd, and eaten in the Spring, 

 like afparagus, are by many reckoned a delicacy. 



The hops themfelves are bitter and aromatic ; a 

 ftrong decoclion of them is eftecm'd a powerful 

 Lithontriptic •, but their principal ufe is in brew- 

 ing ale, to prevent its turning four. 

 ^ ^ OCTANDRIA. 



