. 
300 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
gin embracing the ova a Nate roundish-ovoid, inclosed in the persis- 
tent truncate calyx. yl edons linear, spirally involute. 
1. H.Lu’pulus, L. Leaves mostly 3-lobed, cordate at base, petiolate, 
_ scabrous. 
Hor. Hop-vine. 
Fr. Houblon. Germ. Der Hopfen. Span. Hoblon. 
mnial, branching. Stem 10-15 or 20 fect long, several from the vate pete we 
Phizoma). slender, volubile, gp angular and m mostly twisted, retrorsely 
with slender branches abov: -5 inches long, peverally eppesite—the “upper 
often re Make te and not obed —all very prapryes fn the upper surfac ee ioles | aes 
3 inches lon te-ianceolate, co te below, free ie sun 
sp ating in pion panicl “Pistiliate Dando ovo id-oblong Popes te ees, 
or Beran which are proverbial numerous pm f éroitied ce as thick as pa 7), 1-2. in- 
ches long’at maturity ; bracts orbicular or Sicha ovate a short pt acumina- 
eon but indigenous in most parts of the United States. FL Fy: Fr. Septem- 
r. rt 
Obs. The value of the Cones, or Aments, of the pistillate plant, is 
well known to every house-keeper ; and it is cultivated for eulinary 
Fis. 190. Th Ho: ulus Lupulus branch of shinies siemcbanedia 
eee 192. A —, ament.. 193, Aripe ament, 
much magnified grain of Lupulin. 
