350 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Humulus. 
mouth, in the salt marshes out of the north gates. Mr. Woodward. At 
Lynn. Plukenet. (Shore of Braydon, Suffolk. Mr. Wigg. E.) 
A. July—Sept.* 
HU'MULUS.f Barren and fertile flowers on different plants : 
Bloss . none. 
B. Calyx five-leaved: Anth . with two pores at the 
apex. 
F. Calyx one-leaved, oblique, entire: Seed one, coated 
by a leaf-like calyx. 
H. lu'pulus. 
(JE. Bot. 427. E.)— Mill. III. — Kniph. 9— Gars. 355— Blackw. 536. A. B. — 
Clus. i. 126. 2 —Dod. 409. 1— Lob. Obs. 347. 2; Ic. i. 629. 1— Ger. 
1Em. 885— Park. 177— Ger. 737. 1— Cam. Epit. 933.fert. and bar. 934— 
Fuchs. 164— J. B. ii. 151 —Trag. 812— Matth. 1213 —Ger. 737— J. B. 
ii. 152 —Lon. i. 208. 3. 
Stems climbing and winding to the right, (extending many feet, dying down 
to the root at the commencement of frost, angular. Leaves lobed, ser¬ 
rated, (opposite, rough. Flowers greenish yellow, the fertile ones ovate, 
pendulous, cone-like catkins, at length scariose. E.) 
Common Hop. (Welsh: Llewig y blaidd; Pensoeg. E.) In hedges, (par¬ 
ticularly of the middle and southern counties of England. In Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. On the Hamilton road, near Tolcross, Glasgow. Mr. 
Hopkirk. Hedges near Duddingston. Grev. Edin. E.) P. June.£ 
* The July Arrach Moth, Phalcena Atriplicis y P. lubricipeda, P. ewsoleta, P. Ox- 
yacanthce, and Aphis Atriplicis, are found upon the different species. 
•b (From humilis , of humble growth ; a trailing plant. E.) 
X (The principal use of Hops is in the brewery for the preservation of malt liquors ; 
which, by the super-addition of this balsamic, aperient, and diuretic bitter, become Jess 
viscid, less apt to turn sour, more detergent, and in general more salubrious. E.) The 
English, according to the most credible accounts, learned the use of Hops from some 
native of Artois, who, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, introduced them into 
this country, (or as some believe about the year 1524. They are first mentioned in the 
English Statute-Book in the year 1552, viz. 5th and 6th Edward VI. cap. 5. And by an act 
of parliament of the first year of King James I. anno 1603, cap. 18, it appears that Hops 
were then produced in abundance in England. E.); but for a long time the addition of 
them to beer was held to be an adulteration of that liquor : (and so deleterious were they 
considered, that the use of them was interdicted by law 7 in Scotland. The failure of the crop 
is so frequent, and the expenses on their culture so great, that it may almost be doubted 
whether on the average, they are profitable to the husbandman. 
“ Till St. James (a) be come and gone, 
There may be Hops, or there may be none,” 
is proverbial. 
Mr. White remarks that this precarious produce may be partly attributable to the fertile 
plants being usually deprived of the natural proximity of the other kind. A due portion of 
each should be left in every Hop garden, in which case the plants become more vigorous, 
(as proved in analogous instances.) The tops should also be pinched off when the binds 
are very strong, which increases the side shoots. It has been, therefore, recommended to 
plant Hops on espaliers, the horizontal growth having been found more productive than 
the upright. But, as Mr. Aikin describes, the Hop plants are usually set in small hills 
at regular distances from each other, about five plants, and three long poles for them to 
run upon, being placed in each hill. Towards July they have reached the top of poles 
fifteen to twenty feet high, when the Hop gardens make a most beautiful appearance, the 
(a) July 25. 
