Humulus
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Humulus (Latin name, of doubtful origin). Moraceae. Hop. Two twining vines, with rough, opposite, palmately lobed or divided leaves, grown for ornament and one also for "hops." Dioecious, the fls. in axillary clusters; staminate fls. with 5 erect stamens and 5-parted calyx, in little drooping tassel-like racemes; pistillate fls. with an entire calyx or perianth closely investing the ovary, which bears 2 long stigmas, the fls. in pairs under large overlapping bracts, the whole making a cone-like catkin which, when becoming very large, is a "hop."—One species in N. Amer. and Eurasia, and one in Japan and Manchuria.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963