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Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America : containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes / by C. S. Rafinesque.

  • Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Date:
1828-1830
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Credit: Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America : containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes / by C. S. Rafinesque. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 50. HUMULUS LUPULUS. English Name—COMMON HOP. French Name—Houblon commun. German Name—Hopfen. Officinal Names—Lupuli coni, humuli strobili. Vulgar Names—Hops, Wild-hops, Hopvine. Authorities Lin. Pursh, Nuttal, A. Ives> Schoepf, Treaks, Bryorly, Bigsby, many Dispens. Alibert, Coxe, Eberle, Maton, Roches, Zollickoffer, Bigelow, fig. (30 and Seq. Genus Humulus—Dioical, Staminate flowers with a five leaved perigone, Stamina five, anthers bipore. Pistilate flowers strobilate: bracts biflore, perigone one leaved, persistent entire, concave, involute. One pistil, two styles, one seed. Species H. lupulus—Stem twining and rough, leaves opposite, petiolate, cordate, three or five lobed, acute, sharply serrate, rough: staminate flow- ers panicled, fertile strobiles axillary peduncled. DESCRIPTION—Root perennial. Stem annual, forming a climbing vine, twining from right to left, angular, rough with minute reflexed prickles. Leaves opposite, petiols crooked, smaller and floral leaves cordate, acuminate, serrate: the main leaves nearly palmate, trilobe, sometimes five lobe; lobes large, oval acute, sharply serrate; sinusses obtuse, without
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