DIOECIA PENTANDRIA. 615 



■ I^SNTANDRIA. 



HUMULUS. Gen.pL in 6. 



■■''•*'*"• MASa Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. o. . ' ! 



i'EM. Cal. i-phyllu3, oblique patens, integer, 

 • Cor- o. Styli 2. Sem. i, intra calyceoj 

 foliatum. 



lupulus * u HUMULUS. Sp. pL 1457. i'^^^- ^«'- 8^'5-/- 1./>/«.) 

 Hops. Anglis. 

 ' -: ■ It is fomctimes found in hedges near houfes and 

 gardens, but is probably not indigenous. "U.VI. 

 The ftalk is weak and climbing; it creeps up the 

 lupport in a fpivaJ, afcending always from the 

 right hand to the left. This and the leaves are 

 rough to the touch : the upper leaves are heart- 

 ihaped, the lower ones are divided into three 

 lobes, ferrated on the edges, and grow in pairs 

 on long footftalks. The male flowers grow on 

 a diflind plant, on branched peduncles ; the fe- 

 males grow on peduncles, in pairs, of the form 

 of a cone, or Jlrobilus, compoled of large oval 



, .,. .. imbricated caljcesj containing each one or two 



.^v.-"\ '"Xhe young fhoots boil'd, and eaten in the Spring, 



<^y9T " like afparagus, are by many reckoned a delicacy. 



., The hops themfclves arc bitter and aromatic -, a 



ftrong decoclicn of them is efteem'd a powerful 



,"..^l',v<fl£ Lithontriptic ; but their principal ufc is ii brew- • 



»';|>miM.> ing ale, to prevent its turning four. 



OCTANDRIA. 



