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New Species of Sambucus. 



Sambucus orbiculata. Twigs of the season minutely 

 puberulent, all the older parts of the branches glabrous : leaf- 

 lets 5, or those of earliest foliage 3 only, all except those of 

 leaves next under the corymb suborbicular, 1 inch long or 

 more and of nearly or quite the same width, of rather firm 

 texture, beneath scabrous-pubescent, but between the veins 

 rather than along them, the margins not deeply but closely 

 cut, in those of the most rounded leaflets dentate, in those of 

 the later and more oval ones serrate, all cuspidate-acute at 

 apex and very abruptly inequilateral at base. 



Santa Lucia Mountains, Calif., May, 1898, R. A. Plaskett ; 

 his n. 141 as in U. S. Herb. The specimens w^ere barely in 

 flower at time of collecting. The species is of the group of 

 S, caeni/ea, Raf. 



Sambucus coriacea. Growing branches of the season 

 rusty-tomentose : leaflets 3 to 5, round-oval, 1 to 1/4 inches 

 long, the width somewhat less, inequilateral at base, yet not 

 abruptly so, both margins ending below somewhat cuneately, 

 in general deeply, closely and sharply serrate, the very apex a 

 triangular cusp broader than high, the whole of an almost 

 leathery texture, the veins not obscure on either face and as to 

 the upper face hispidulous-scabrous, all the lower face, veins 

 and all, more closely hispidulous : corymbs short-peduncled : 

 berries black, apparently without bloom, also thinly puberulent. 



Collected somew^here in the mountains back of Santa 

 Barbara, Calif., in September, 1908, by Alice Eastwood; her 



I n. 218 as in U. S. Herb. 



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Sambucus fimbriata. All parts, even the tenderest young 



twigs, glabrous, the branches of a year old with a smooth 



cinnamon-brown bark without trace of lenticels : leaves of 



quite subcoriaceous texture, the leaflets 5 to 7, round-oval to 



i oval-elliptic, very large and broad, from 2 inches long and 1} 



inches wide in the smallest pair to 3 in length and 2 in width 



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