This section is from the book "A Text-Book Of Pharmacology, Therapeutics And Materia Medica", by T. Lauder Brunton. Also available from Amazon: A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
The dried strobiles of Humulus Lupulus.
Cultivated in England.
Characters. - Strobiles of a greenish-yellow colour, with minute yellow grains (lupulin) adherent to the base of the scales. Odour aromatic, taste bitter.
U.S.P. Humulus. Hop
The strobiles of Humulus Lupulus.
Characters. - Ovate, about an inch and a quarter (3 centimetres) long, consisting of a thin, hairy, undulated axis, and many obliquely ovate, membranous, greenish scales, in the upper part reticulately veined, and toward the base parallel-veined, glandular, and surrounding a subglobular achene; odour aromatic; taste bitter, aromatic, and slightly astringent.
 
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