HOP-TREE (Pt,lea trifoliuta). An Ameri can shrub of the rue family, called also shrubby trefoil, wafer-ash, and wingspeed, grows in rocky places from Pennsylvania to Minnesota and southward. It usually grows from 6 to 10 feet in height, but when well trimmed and culti vated sometimes attains a height of 30 feet or more. Thr• leaves are trifoliate. the leaflets oho vale and pi kited, and downy when young; the flow I rs. which grow in terminal woes, are Cr'elii.h White. and base a odor. 'Hie fruit has a broad which resembh•s that of the elm. and is very bitter. but does not pos sess the aromatic principle of the hop; neverthe l•ss. it is said to have been used as a substitute for hops in making hoer. The hark and root are of repute in medicine. When dried the hark has a peouliar, somewhat. aromatic smell. and a bitter. pungent. acrid taste. The bark contains an acrid. hitter oleo-resin. starch, albumin, a yellow coloring substance, and salts of lime, pot ash, and iron; also the alkaloid berberine, prob ably the tonic principle.
HOR, hi,r (Ileb., mountain). (1) A moun tain of Arabia Petrwa, lx.tween the Gulf of Akabah and the Red Sea, and forming part of the mountain range of _Ethan or heir. It was here that Aaron (q.v.) is said to have died dur ing the journey of the Israelites into l'alestine (Num. xx. 22-29; xxxiii. 35, 39; Dent. xxxii, 50). The modern name of the place is Jebel Miriam ('Slount of Aaron'), and the Alohatinne dans point to a structure on the top of the mountain as the tomb of the brother of Moses. (2) A mountain which was to be the northern border of the inheritance of the Ilebre• tribes (Nun]. XXXIV. 7). If the Hebrew text is correct (which is doubtful), the name refers to the Lebanon range, and probably to fount Hermon. however. give the preference to Jebel Akkar. in the northeast of the Lebanon.