ULMAGE.E. 



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cymes or glomerules, and are situated in tlie axils of the foliaceous 

 bracts. Each is accompanied by a bracteole, a small gamosepalous 

 calyx and a unilocular and uniovulate ovary, surmounted by two 

 equal branches of a long developed, oval-lanceolate style, veluto- 



Humulus Lupulm. 



Fig. 138. Female inflo- 

 rescence (A). 



Fig. 139. Female 

 flower (f). 



Fig. 140. Long. 



sect, of 



female flower. 



Fig. 142. Compound 

 fruit (cone). 



Fig. 144. Achene and 

 induvium {\). 



Fig. 143. Winged 

 induvium. 



Fig. 145. Long. sect, of 

 induviate achene. 



glandular without and considered as formed of two connate stipules. 

 It persists around the fruit which it totally envelopes and extends 

 even a little beyond. 



The Hops^ (fig. 137-145) are also dioecious, and their male and 

 female flowers are constructed like those of the Hemp. But their 

 staminal filaments, instead of remaining erect, become very slender 

 and pendent, and the female floral bracts, as also the bracteoles, 



'^ B:umuluslj,Gen.ZU.—S. Gen. ^Q^.—Lkuk. 1891.— Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 265, fig. 179.— 



Diet. iii. 138; /^/.t. 815.— Schkuhr.— ITaw^*. . Payer, Fam. Nat. 169. -A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 



t. 326.— Nees, Ic. Fl. Germ, ii. 31.— Sculeid. p. i. 29.— Lupulus T. In&t. 535, t. 309.— G^ertn. 



JFiegm. Areh, v. 229, t. 7 ; Beitr. t. 2, fig. 20. - Fruct. t. 75. 

 Spach, Suit, d Bufforiy ,xi. 33. — Endl. Gen. n. 



