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LXXXI. UL]\rACE^. 



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cept the scale. Emhryo spiral. — Name : humus, rich soil 

 mould ; In which the plant flourishes. ' °^ 



1. H. *Lupulus L. (common H.). E. B. t. 427. 



Thickets and hedges in various places, 

 weak and tvvininjj, scabrous. 



n. 7, 8. 



Leaves petiolate, opposite 3 



Stems long^ 

 •5-lobecl 



serrate, veuiy, rough, i^/ozi'ers greenlsh-yelloxv^. Dr. Bromfieldthouffl * 

 this « indisputably indigenous in the S. of England." The frao-ra [ 



bitter, so valuable in the manufacture of beer, resides in the 

 or cones, as they are often called, of the Hop. 



rant 

 catliins. 



Oed. LXXXI. ULMACE^ Mirb. 



Flowers perfect or polygamous, not in catkins. Perianth 

 membranous, inferior, campanulate, and 3_8-cleft, or S-partite- 

 segments imbricated in ajstivation. Stamens definite, inserted 

 into the base of the perianth, as manj as and opposite to its 

 segments, ^w^/jer* 2-celled, erect in fEstlyatlon. Ovary tree 

 1— 2-celled. Ooides solitary in each cell, pendulous or sus- 

 pended. Stigmas 2, distinct, elongated. Fruit 1-celled 1- 

 seeded, Indehiscent, dry, or drupaceous. Seed pendulous with- 

 out or with little (fleshy) albumen. — Trees or shrubs, with 

 scabrous, alterrmte, distichous, stipuled leaves ; allied to Rham- 

 nacea^, according to Lindley ; hut if Celtlde^ he combined with 



they are prohahly only a Suborder. 



from Urticace^, of 



1. U^LMus Linn. Elm. 



Floivers perfect. Perianth persistent, with 3—8 divisions 

 campanulate or conical at the base. Stam. 5. Filaments strai-^bt 

 m a3stivation, not bending back elastlcally. Ovary 2-celled 

 Capsule compressed, winged all round (hence a Samara).^ 

 Named, according to Theis from the Anglo-Saxon Elm;\r^i 

 Olrn IS still the Dutch, and Ulm the German word for this tree; 

 but all these are derived from the Hebrew ul, to be strong, or 

 vigorous, from the growth of the tree and quality of the timber. 



(The English species belong to the subgenus Bryopteka Spach; 

 Perrcarp subcyatluforin-carapanulate, equal, 4-6 cleft. Samara iaked 



4 ., TF""' .1. f"'^-' '^"'''. ^^""''^y ^^««'*^'^d. Leaves serrate. 

 llZZ^t''- ^%'^«-^— A« in Ruhus and ^a&,. the numerous 

 Sr PI ^ 1 '' }'' genus require to be much reduced ; we shall 



1. u. 



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(common F.) 



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■5 -cleft, 



segments ciliated, samara broadest 'above the midie ^abrou. 



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