voL.1v.]| Writings of Edward L. Greene. gI 
ters of S. glauca and S. racemosa, but is principally of the first, 
and his type specimens are from trees of S. glauca. He says: 
‘‘The arborescent habit, stipulate and often bipinnate leaves, 
but more than all the broad and flat rather than thyrsoid inflor- 
escence and fruit-clusters mark this [.S. callicarpa] as a species 
very distinct from the Old World S. racemosa, in which latter 
the corolla lobes moreover are closely reflexed against the ped- 
icel. The eastern shrub, .S. pubens, is easily distinguishable 
from both by a character not hitherto mentioned, 7. ¢., the large, 
rounded and very conspicuous winter-buds. The red-berried 
elder of the northern woods from Oregon to Alaska is not .S. 
vacemosa, for it has, like our species, very ample and almost flat- 
topped cymes; but neither am I confident of its identity with .S. 
callicarpa. Our tree has small winter-buds and is hardly in 
flower before April, putting forth its leaves in March.’’* 
Subsequently he redescribes the plant as S. maritima: 
‘* Though I named as the type of my SS. callicarpa the beautiful, 
scarlet-berried elder common in California, and called .S. vace- 
mosa in the State Survey Botany, the description of the trunk, 
foliage, etc., was drawn from fresh specimens of a tree which 
now proves by its mature fruit to be a wholly distinct and new 
species. Said trees, which, by their early flowering and general 
resemblance to the red-berried species, I had always supposed 
to be that, had always interested me deeply by their strangely 
maritime habit. They stand at only a few rods distance from a 
sand-beach of San Francisco Bay; and that in a depression which 
cannot more than equal the level of the salt water at less than 
the highest tide. * * * By its early flowering and other pecul- 
iarities, it is clearly of that group which embraces .S. racemosa, 
callicarpa and melanocarpa, That the American S. pudbens is 
distinct from racemosa I indicated in the Flora Franciscana.” + 
This remarkable group of Sambucus glauca furnishing from 
the same stem type specimens of two species, both according to 
the author to be kept up, may be seen along the northern end 
of Shell Mound. It is not in danger, as one would infer from the 
author’s language, of a bath of salt water. Mr. Greene evidently 
* Flora Franciscana, 342. 
fT Bitt, il; 207. 
