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Sambucus borealis. Branches of the preceding year in 

 their maturity cinereous as if with bloom, but the growing 

 ones of the season not at all glaucous, obscurely scabrous- 

 puberulent : mature foliage remarkably small for that of an 

 elder bush, the leaflets 5 only, oblong-elliptic, 1}^ to 2>2 inches 

 long, very closely and evenly serrate, ending at apex in a sub- 

 falcate acumination, the base cuneate, but obliquely so, the 

 longer margin and the shorter tapering to the short but definite 

 petiolule, the texture thin, upper face glabrous, the lower 

 tomentulose : fruiting thyrsus of red berries rather ample, the 

 small oval seeds strongly rugulose. 



Itaska Ivake, 



June, 1891, by T 



Sandberg ; his n. 1086 as in U. S. Herb. The small size of 

 the foliage and the peculiar indument of it are both very char- 

 acteristic. 



A New Name for the Bayberries. 



At the time of presenting the former paper on the nomen- 

 clature of the Bayberries (page 37 preceding), I did not 

 suppose that any one would find it needful to propose a new 

 I^atin name for them. I thought that among a goodly 

 number of such as had been proposed already, some one or 

 another would be found valid. But Mr. Tidestrom, in a 

 recently issued fascicle of the Elysium Mariamini has not 

 only distinguished two genera of these shrubs, but has 

 assigned a new name to each, Angeia for the original type of 

 Gale, and Cerothamnus for the true bayberries of North 



America. 



The most significant action here is that of the suppression 

 of the name Gale ; this presumably for the reason that it is 

 an English vernacular or common-people's plant name. 

 Dodonaeus (1583), himself a Belgian, merely records this 

 < common name in the form of Gagely but does not regard it as 



admissible into Latin nomenclature, and formally assigns it 





