Okdeh v. 
DKECIA PENTANDRTA. 
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1J910 Leaves entire 3-7-lobed without glands cordate at base 
HEXANJDRIA. 
1S911 Stemless, Lvs. long lin. coriaceous straight toothed at end rough at edge, Panicles lanceolate contracted 
13912 Scapes and spikes short, Lvs. distichous cartilaginous convex beneath ^ truncate at end, Stem very short 
13913 Stem ascending, Stalks spiny serrated. Anthers and fruits ovate acute 
13914 Fronds pinnated. Leaflets sheathed. Stems unarmed 
13915 Fronds pinnated, Stems toothed spiny diverging : upper teeth recurved 
13916 Fi'onds pinnated 2 feet long : pinnae alternate oblong narrowed at base pointed at end 
13917 Fronds palmate plaited cucuUate, Stalks serrated 
13918 Fronds flabelliform, Male spadix dexuose a foot long and more 
13919 Stem prickly angular, Leaves hastate cordate lanceolate 7-9-nerved prickly toothed coriaceous 
13920 Stem prickly angular. Leaves unarmed ovate slightly cordate about 7-nerved 
13921 Stem prickly somewhat square. Leaves unarmed 3-5-nerved ovate-oblong cordate 
13922 Stem prickly square, Leaves unarmed ovate acute 5-nerved 
13923 Stem prickly nearly square. Leaves unarmed ovate-lanceolate cuspidate about 5-nerved glaucous beneath 
13924 Stem prickly rounded. Leaves roundish-cordate acute at eacli end 5-nerved 
13925 Stem prickly rounded, Leaves roundish-ovate acuminate slightly cordate 5-nerved 
13926 Stem prickly rounded. Branches unarmed, Leaves ellipt. or elliptical-lanc. obtuse recurved acute 3-nerved 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
crop. The quality of hops is estimated by the abundance or scarcity of an unctuous clammy powder which 
adheres to them, and by their bright yellow color. 
The expences of forming a hop plantation are very great ; but once in bearing, it will continue so for ten or 
fifteen years before it requires to be renewed. The hop culture in England, like that of the culture of the vine 
in France, is only calculated for cultivators of considerable capital, v/ho can retain the produce from years of 
abundance to years of scarcity. It is calculated on an average, that the hop crop fails almost entirely every 
fifth year, when the price will rise from two to thirty pounds per cwt. To those who can cultivate and preserve 
the hop with a view to such a rise, few crops will be equally profitable. 
The hop is peculiarly liable to diseases J when young it it devoured by fleas of different kinds; at a more 
advanced stage it is attacked by the green fly, red spider, and otter moth, the larvee of which prey even upon its 
roots The honey dew often materially injures the hop crop; and the mould, the fireblast, and other blights 
injure it at different times towards the latter periods of the growth of the plants. 
The use of hop in brewing is to prevent the beer from becoming sour, and this is the grand purpose for which 
it is cultivated. But the young shoots both of the wild and improved hops are eaten early in the spring as 
asparagus, and were formerly brought to market for that purpose. The stalk and leaves will dye wool yellow. 
From the stalks a strong cloth is made in Sweden, the mode of preparing which is described by Linnseus in his 
Flora Suecica. A decoction of the roots is said to be as good a sudorific as Sarsaparilla ; and the smell of the 
flowers is soporific. During the illness of George the third, in 1787, a pillow filled with hops was used instead 
of opiates. 
2075. Modecca, is an Indian word by which two or three species of this genus appear in the Hortus Mala.. 
bancus, and has been adopted as a generic name by Lamarck. A curious plant resembling a bryony, of easy 
culture and propagation. 
2076. Xerotes. From |-,j^o?, dry, on account of the aridity of the herbage and of the situations in which it 
grows. 
2077. £lais. The natives of Guinea express oil from the fruit of this, as the Greeks from their olives, iXtzM, 
■whence its name. This palm bears a fruit about the size of a large plum. The inhabitants of the West India 
Islands draw an oil from it, by the same process used in extracting oil from olives. From the sap an inebriat- 
ing Hquor is fermented, and the negroes weave the leaves into mats, on which they repose. 
2078. Chanuedorea. Named, we presume, from dwarf, and lu^ia, a gift : but we are ignorant of the 
sense in which the name has been applied. 
2079 Borassus. This is one of the names which were applied to the spatha of the date ; and was applied by 
Linna;us to the designation of this family of palms. The fruit of this palm is of the size and shape of a child's 
head ; a wine and a sugar are made from the sap of the trunk. 
2080. Mauritia. Named in honor of Prince Maui ice of Nassau, the patron of Piso, for whom, he obtained 
the necessary aid towards publishing his Natural History of Brazil. A fine genus of palms. 
♦ V, Smilax. From irf^iX'^, a grater ; the stems are rough with stiff prickles. S. aspera has roots not unlike 
those of the Sarsaparilla. They have the same qualities, but in an inferior degree : and may be distinguished by 
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