A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . en cultivated throughout Europe and Americafor its valuable fiber, from which hemp is manu-factured, and for its seeds and their oil. It is a large,very variable, annual herb, with an upright, slender,usually branching stem from one to three meters high(3 to 10 feet). In the female plant, the flowers arein small, erect spikes, each in the axil of an upright,pointed bract, consisting of a single one-seeded, two-styled carpel enveloped in a broad, spathe-like, one-le
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . en cultivated throughout Europe and Americafor its valuable fiber, from which hemp is manu-factured, and for its seeds and their oil. It is a large,very variable, annual herb, with an upright, slender,usually branching stem from one to three meters high(3 to 10 feet). In the female plant, the flowers arein small, erect spikes, each in the axil of an upright,pointed bract, consisting of a single one-seeded, two-styled carpel enveloped in a broad, spathe-like, one-leaved perianth. Fruit (the hemp seed of commerce),a roundish-pointed achenium containing a singlependulous, oily seed. The plant contaiiis a large amount of resin, whichexudes upon the surface, more particularly upon theflowering branch. This resin becomes most abundantat the beginnLng of fructification, and as the fruitforms it diminishes in a ver\ marked degree. ..iUndercultivation, any such loss of resin is prevented byeliminating the male plants or by gathering the topsbefore the fruit begins to form. Intemperate climates. Fig. 11S8.—Pistillate Inflorescence of the Hemp Plant.(Baillon). the plant is deficient in resin, and for medicinal pur-poses that which is grown in India and Southern Asiais very superior. Indian hemp is collected in three forms: first, theflowering tops of the female plant, known as gunjah,secondly, the leaves, bhang, which are used forsmoking; and, thirdly, the resin, chiirrus, orcharus, which enters into the composition ofhashish, and is also used for smoking. The tops as reach us consist of compressedmasses of branches and leaves with flowers, and attimes with specimens of immature fruit, the wholematted together by the resinous secretion. Theleaves and bracts bear external oleoresin glands, andone-celled curved hairs, which are very characteristicand serve to identify the plant. The bases of thesehairs are enlarged and frequently contain cyst
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