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HUMTAH', a city of Paleftine, belonging to the tribe 
of Judah ; iituated in the mountains of that province. 
Jofh. xv. 54. 
HU'MULUS, f. [from humus, moift earth or ground.] 
The Hop; in botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order 
pehtandria, natural order of fcabridae, (urticse, JujJ.) The 
generic characters are—I. Male. Calyx : perianthium. five¬ 
leaved ; leaflets oblong, concave, blunt. Corolla: none. 
Stamina : filaments, live, capillary, very fhort; antherce 
oblong. II. Female. Calyx: involucre universal, four- 
parted, Iharp ; partial four-leaved, ovate, eight-flowered ; 
to each flower a perianthium one-leafed, ovate, very large, 
outwardly flat on one fide, converging at the bale. Co¬ 
rolla : none. Piftillum : germ very fmall; ftyles two, (ta¬ 
bulate, patulous; ftigmas fharp. Pericarpium : none. 
■ Calyx inclofing the feed at the bale. Seed : roundilh, co¬ 
vered with a coat.— EJJ'ential CparaBer. Male. Calyx five¬ 
leaved; corolla none. Female. Calyx one-leafed, fpread- 
ing obliquely, entire ; corolla none; ltyles two; Iced one, 
within a leafed calyx. 
Jiumulus lupulus, a Angle fpecies. Root perennial. 
Steins weak and twining, not climbing by tendrils, but 
afeending a prop, trees, or flirubs, in a fpiral, always with 
the fun, that is from right to left, or from ealt to weft by 
the louth ; this direction it has in common with Tamus 
or black bryony, Lonicera or honeyfuckle, and feveral 
others; but more turn the contrary way, or from left to 
right, as Phafeolus or kidney-beans, and feveral other le¬ 
guminous plants, convolvulus, See. &c. Thefe items are 
angular, ftriated, and rugged, with very minute prickles. 
The ftem of the hop is fliown on the Botany Plate III. 
fig. 13. vol. iii. p. 239. and the leaf Plate V. fig. 84. 
Leaves oppofite in pairs, (or fometimes in threes,) the up¬ 
per ones heart-fhaped, the lower three-lobed, (or fome- 
times five-lobed,) ferrate, dark-green above, pale-green 
beneath, on long petioles; which, as well as the leaves 
themfelves, are rugged with minute prickles. Flow¬ 
ers greenifh yellow; the males on branched peduncles; 
the females on a diltinft plant, peduncled, in pairs, in the 
form of a cone or ftrobile, compofed rif ovate membra¬ 
naceous feales, tubular from being rolled in at the bafe, 
and two-flowered, each containing one (fometimes two) 
'feed, of a brown bay colour, of a globular form a little 
flatted, lurrounded with a fharp rim, and comprefied at 
the tip. It is covered with three coats ; the outer mem¬ 
branaceous and wrinkled, the middle cruftaceous and thin, 
the inner membranaceous. The embryo is fpiral and in¬ 
verted. 'Native of moll: parts of Europe, in hedges; alfo 
of Japan ; flowering with us in June. Hops in German 
are called hopfef in Dutch, hoppe-, in Danish .and Swedifh, 
pumle ; in French, houblon ; in Italian, lupulo ; in Spanifii, 
kombrecillo, hoblon, lupulo, viclarria ; in Portugueze, lupulo , 
II U M 
liomlrczilho,Jinoura,feba ; in Ruffian, and all the Sclavonian . 
dialefts, chmel-, in the Tartarian, kitmula, umula ; in Peril An, 
hymel. 
The young (hoots are eaten early in the fpring as afpa- 
ragus, and are lold under the name of hop-tops; they are 
faid to be diuretic, and to be good againft the feurvy, 
taken in an infulion. The herb will dye wool yellow 
From the Halles a ftrong cloth is made in Sweden'; for 
this purpofe. they muft be gathered in autumn, lbaked in 
water all winter; and in March, after being dried in a 
ftove, they are dreffed like flax. They require a longer 
' time to rot than flax ; arid, if not completely macerated, 
the woody part will not feparate, nor the cloth prove 
white or fine. 
The Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, 
and Commerce, at London, offered premiums, in the year 
1760, for cloth made from hop-ftalks, or hinds. The 
year following Mr. Cookfev produced fome Specimens of 
cloth, and Was of opinion that it would anfwer very well 
the purpofe of fine lacking, and coarie bagging for hops. 
He had kept the material too long under water; and 
found, at the end of fix weeks or two months, the binds 
afforded filaments lufficiently fine and ftrong for any pur¬ 
pofe. In 1791, Mr. John Lockett, of Donnington near 
Newbury in Berkfhire, had the premium adjudged to him 
for cloth made from thefe (talks, or hop-vines as they 
are here called. They were cut in lengths of about two 
or three feet; put into a furnace, in which was lbme lie 
that linen had been boiled in for bleaching; and then 
boiled, till the rind feparated from the ftalk eafily. When 
cool, they ftript fo freely, that children might do it; and 
the yield was great in proportion to the quantity of (talks. 
The (ame method was then followed as in working hemp 
or flax; but it is much more (tubborn than either, and 
therefore not fo well adapted to making fine cloth ; the 
fibres alfo are (o united with a very adherent matter, that 
they do not eafily feparate; but for lacks, cordage, Sec. it 
may be of great fervice. Some of it was hackled while it 
was wet, foon after it was taken off, but it did not fepa¬ 
rate the fibres. Carding feems to work it bed’, and to 
make it like cotton. Of the piece of cloth fent, the warp 
was hackled, and the woof carded. 
A decoction of the roots of hops, from one to two 
ounces, or an extract from them to the quantity of twenty 
or thirty grains, is faid to be fudorific, and to anfwer the 
purpofesof farfaparilla. Both thefe and the ftrobiles have 
a balliimic principle, and are thought to be ferviceable in 
removing obltruftions, conceding the vifeidity of the 
lymph, opening the pores of the (kin, cleanfmg the kid¬ 
neys, &c. But the principal ufe of the latter in Britain 
and other northern countries, is in brewing beer, to pre¬ 
vent it from turning four. Haller, from liidorus, fays 
that the firft experiment for this purpofe was made in 
Italy. 
The ufe of hops for preferving beer, and the culture of 
the plant, were introduced into England from Flanders- 
The yearaffigned is 1524, the 15th of Henry VIII. Fitz- 
herbert, in 1534, makes no mention of them; but Tufler, 
in 1562, gives many directions for their culture, which 
•was new in his time ; for, although they probably began 
to be ufed after the expedition <af king Henry VIII. againft 
Tournay, yet, like molt novelties, they were at (hit much 
oppofed, and were doubtlels for fome time chiefly im¬ 
ported ; for, fo late as the year 1695, they were imported 
from Flanders and Holland. 
The firft treatife written exprefsly on the culture of 
hops in English was by Reynolde Scott, printed in 1574, 
and a fecond time in 1576 ; it is entitled, A perlite Plat- 
forme of a Hoppe Garden. He complains, that “the 
Flemmings envie our practife herin, who altogither tende 
their owne profite, feeking to impownde us in the igno- 
raunce of our commodities, to cramme us with the wares 
and fruites of their countrie, and to doe ariye thing that 
myght put impediment to this purpofe, dazeling us with 
the difeommendation of our foyle, obl.curing and falfify- 
ing 
