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the appearance of a Nettle ; stem branched and spreading, tinged 

 with red, leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, slightly hairy, stalked. 

 Flowers in sessile clusters at the base of the leaves, reddish. For 

 an account of the structure of the flowers, which is very curious, 

 see Hooker and Arnott's ' British Flora.' Old walls about Torre 

 Abbey. Cockington, etc. (E. B. t. 879.) P. vi.-ix. 



SUBOED. II. CANNABINE&. 



HUMUX.US. HOP. 



H. Lupulus (common Hop.} In hedges and thickets. Male 

 and female flowers on separate plants. Stems twining and twist- 

 ing over bushes and small trees, often to a great height. Leaves 

 opposite, stalked, large, from 3- to 5-lobed, heart-shaped at the 

 base, sharply serrate. On the male plant, flowers in loose clusters 

 in the axils of the upper leaves, yellowish-green ; on the female, in 

 axillary roundish heads or spikes of thickly crowded bracts or 

 scales, with 2 sessile flowers in each axil : these heads or catkins 

 are the parts of the plant so extensively used in the manufacture 

 of beer. Male plant, in a hedge on the road between Churston 

 Ferrers and Brixham. Female plant, Marychurch. (E. B. t. 427.) 

 P. VII. VIII. 



OED. LXXXI. ULMACE.E. 

 UIiMUS. ELM. 



1. U. montana (Wych JSlm.) In woods and hedges. A 

 large and exceedingly picturesque tree, with wide and spreading 

 branches. Leaves nearly sessile, broadly ovate, doubly serrate, 

 unequal at the base, downy beneath. Flowers reddish-purple, in 

 thick clusters, fruit broadly ovate, or roundish, green, somewhat 

 like a hop-scale. Common in woods and hedges. (E. B. 1. 1887, 

 and U. major, t. 2542.) T. ill. IT. 



2. U. campestris (common Mm.) In hedges, etc. Not un- 

 like the last, but generally a taller and straighter-growing tree ; 

 leaves not quite so large ; but it is mainly distinguishable by its 

 fruit, which is oblong and deeply notched ; its characteristics 

 however are not constant, and the different varieties of Elm 

 seem to glide into each other. Common. (E. B. t. 1886. U. su~ 

 berosa, t. 2161, and U. glabra, t. 2248.) T. in.-v. 



