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only remembred it , but commended it highly for 
many Difeafes. The Greeks at this day call it 
Kj fyvuvta, Bryon and Bryonia , it is likely for the form 
of the Leaves , and running of the Branches. The 
Latines call it Lupulus , Lupus Salitfarius , Lupulus 
Saliftarius ( qui ad Salices affurgit , vel qui Salitfum 
curat , vel quia fa/it Vf reptat per Arbor es, aut quia 
fcandit Salices ) Mefue makes it his third kipd ot 
Volubilis , Lobe l calls it Vitis Septentrionalem , (The 
Northern Vine) and Tragus Smilax afpera , which it 
is not} we in Englifh call it Hop , or Hops. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. i. Lupulus 
Hortenfis , The Garden or Manured Hop. 2. Lupu- 
lus Sylvcflris, Lupulus Lemma , The Wild Hop. 
hairy, alfo rugged Leaves, like thofe of the Vine , 
or rather of Briony , but'yet blacker, and with fewer 
dented divisions } the Flowers hang down by clutters 
from the tops of the Branches, puffed up , and let 
as it were with Scales, like little Canes, or Scaled 
Pine Apples , of a whitifh color, tending to yellow- 
nefs, and of a ttrong fmell. 
| V. The fecond, Wild, or Female Hop, has a Root 
like the former, and grows up in the fame manner , 
form, or fafhion, climbing upon Trees or Hedges , or 
what f lands next unto it, with rough Branches and 
Leaves like the former, but this bears much fmaller 
Heads , and in far lefs plenty or number than the 
Manured does, and fometimes in Lome Years there 
are but few Heads to be feen upon lome Plants, and 
herein confifts the efpeciai difference. 
III. The Defcriptions. The fir (l, or Garden Hop, 
has' a Root zvhieh is great at the head, fhooting forth 
many blackifh firings, taking fajl hold of the Ground ■, 
it riles up at firft with feveral great brown heads , 
like unto Afparagus, but larger, which afterwards 
fpreading it felf out into rough Branches, climb up 
upon great, long, or high Poles, which are fet on 
purpofe for them to run upon -, it has many hard 
and rough dark green Leaves, cut into three or five 
divifions, fomewhat like unto Bramble Leaves , and 
dented alfo about the edges} at the tops of the 
Branches, which hang down again for the molt part, 
come forth many fcaly heads , being as it were a 
number of fmall yellowifh green Leaves growing 
thick together , from among which come forth the 
Flowers , of a whitifh yellow color , which being 
aft , and the heads changing their color to a more 
rownifh yellow, they are then fit to be gathered to 
keep} in this Flower at the bottom thereof is con- 
tained the Seed , which is brown , or of a reddifh 
brown color, fmall and round. 
IV. Gerard deferibes rhe Hop thus. The Root s 
are flcndcr , and diver fly folded one within another \ 
it lives and fiourifhes by embracing and taking hold of 
Poles , Pearches , and other things upon which it may 
climb } it brings forth very long Stalks, rough and 
VI. The Places. Thefe Plants grow more fre- 
quently in our colder Climates, than in the hotter or 
more Southern , they delight to grow in low moiit 
Grounds , where they may have moifture enough , 
and yet not too much , for which caufe they are 
planted on Hillocks as it were , and Trenches arc 
made to receive or carry off any great quantity of 
Water, that the Plants may not Itand drowned, by 
which it appears they delight to grow in a fat and 
fruitful Soil : The Wild Kind grows among Briers 
and Thorns about the borders of Fields } thefe by 
being tranfplanted into Gardens, and being manured 
as the Garden Kind is, much alters it lelf, and be- 
comes little inferior to that of the Garden , and in 
procefs of time comes to the lame goodnefs and per- 
feffion. 
VII. The Times. They fpring not up till April , 
when from the old Roots , which remain all the 
Winter, new Shoots or Buds come forth } they flow- 
er not till the latter end of June, and the Hops iheni- 
felves are not gathered till the middle of Augufl, and 
the beginning and middle of September, when they 
are dried, and fo kept all the Year for ufe. 
VIII. The Vitalities. They are hot and dry in the 
third degree, Inciding, Aperitive, Abfterfive, Sub- 
aftringent, Digeftive, Difcuflive, and Diurerick, 
Neurotick , 
