446 URTicACE^. (nettle family.) 



9. PARIETARIA, Toum. Pelhtoky. 



Flowers monoeciously polygamous ; the staminate, pistillate, and perfect in- 

 termixed in the same involucrate-bracted cymose axillary clusters ; the sterile 

 much as in the last ; the fertile with a tubular or bell-shaped 4-lobed and nerved 

 calyx, enclosing the ovary and the ovoid achenium. Style slender or none: 

 stigma pencil-tufted. — Homely, diffuse or tufted herbs, not stinging, with alter- 

 nate entire 3-ribbed leaves, and no stipules. (The ancient Latin name, because 

 growing on old walls.) 



1 • P. PennsylvAnica, Muhl. Low, annual, simple or sparingly branched, 

 minutely downy ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, thin, veiny, roughish with opaque 

 dots ; flowers shorter than the leaves of the involucre ; stigma sessile. — Shaded 

 rocky banks, Vermont to Wisconsin and southward. June -Aug. 



10. CANNABIS, Toum. Hemp. 



Flowers dioecious ; the sterile in axillary compound racemes or panicles, with 

 5 sepals and 5 drooping stamens. Fertile flowers spiked-clustered, 1-bracted: 

 the calyx of a single sepal enlarging at the base and folded round the ovary. 

 Embryo simply curved. — Atall roughish annual, with digitate leaves of 5-7 

 linear-lanceolate coarsely toothed leaflets, the upper alternate ; the inner bark 

 of very tough fibres. (The ancient name, of obscure etymology.) 



1. C. SATivA, L. (Hemp.) — Waste and cultivated ground. (Adv. from 

 Eu.) 



11. HUMULUS, L. Hop. 



Flowers dioecious ; the sterile in loose axillary panicles, with 5 sepals and .5 

 erect stamens. Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary spikes or catkins : 

 bracts foliaceous, imbricated, each 2-flowered, in fruit forming a sort of mem- 

 branaceous strobile. Calyx of a single sepal, embracing the ovary. Achenia 

 invested with the enlarged scale-like calyx. Embryo coiled in a flat spiral. — 

 Twining rough perennials, with stems almost prickly downwards, mostly oppo- 

 site heart-shaped and palmately 3 - 7-lobed leaves, with persistent ovate stipules 

 between the petioles. (Name thought to be a diminutive o{ humus, moist earth, 

 from the alluvial soil where the Hop spontaneously grows.) 



1. H. Ltipulus, L. (Common Hop.) Leaves mostly 3-5-lobed, and 

 commonly longer than the petioles; bracts, &c., smoothish; the fruiting calyx, 

 achenium, &c., sprinkled with yellow resinous grains, giving the bitterness and 

 aroma of the hop. — Alluvial banks: common northward and westward, where 

 it is clearly indigenous, July. (Eu.) 



Order 100. PliATAlVACEiE. (Plane-tkee Family.) 



Trees, with watery Juice, alternate palmatehj-lobed leaves, sheathing stip- 

 ules, and moncecious flowers in separate and naked spherical heads, destitute 

 of calyx or corolla; the fruit merely cluh-shaped 1-seeded nutlets, furnished 

 with hr'istly down along the base : consists only of the following genus (of 

 uncertain relationship). 



