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ON HEMP. j j 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT. 



Hemp (Cannabis sativa, Linn.) is a genus of the Dioecia Pen- 

 tandria class. Its characters are these : it is male and female in dif- 

 ferent plants. 



The male flowers have a five-leaved concave empalemenr, 

 without petals ; but have five short hairy stamina, terminated by- 

 oblong square summits. 



The female flowers have permanent empalements of one leaf, 

 without petals ; but a small germen, which afterwards becomes a 

 globular-depressed seed, inclosed in the empalement. There is but 

 one species of this plant. 



Chambers's Dictionary, Art. Hemp. 



Cannabis, in botany, a genus of the Pentandria order, be- 

 longing to the Dioecious class of plants, and in the natural method 

 ranking under the 53d order, Scabrida. 



The calix of the male is quinque-partite, with no corolla. 



In the female, the calix is monophyllous, entire, and gaping 

 at the side. There is no corolla, but two stiles. The fruit is a nut, 

 bivalved, within the closed calix. Of this there is but one species, 

 the Sativa, 



Encyclopaedia Britamiica, Art. Cannabis, 



Hemp, in botany, Cannabis Sativa. The root is long, and 

 comparatively slender, divided into branches, and full of fibres. 



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