SAMBUCUS NIGRA 



219 



COMMON BLACK ELDER 



STNONTMJ, Samb 



( 



Pharm. Lond. Eif Edinh 



ambucus 



frudlu in umbella 



ro. - Baiih. Pin. p. 456. ^ambucus vulg 



Park, neat, p. 407. J, Bank vol L /. 544. -Ra'ii H'lft, p, 1609. 

 Syjtop. p.^6r. '.Gerdrd. ■Emac p. 1422. Hudfon Flor,' Ang. p, 

 130. Flor. Dan, ^J^^: Withermg.Bot.'Arrang.^ p. 1,20. Bidoamel, 

 t. 6^, Sambucus arborea.floribus umbell 



Varietates fu 



Hal. Stir p. Helv. n.6io. 



r 



/3 Sambucus frudu in umbella viridi. 6*. Baiib, 

 y Sambucus laciniato folio. C. Baiih. 



Clafs Pentandria. 



Ord. Trio-ynia 



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Lin: Gen. Plant. 372 



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Ef. Gen. Ch. ' Cal. 5-partitus., Cor. 5-fida. Bacca A-(^Qvm3.. ' 

 Sp. Ch. S. cymis quinquepartitis, foliis pinnatis, caule arboreo. 



.^x 



THE 



from which iffues a fhrubby ftem oft 



root is woody, 

 the height of twelve or fi 



top, and covered with a rough whitifh bark : the wood is hard"touffh 



feet 



to 

 much branched towards the 



and contains in the centre a large proport 



pith 



the leaves are 



pm 



la 



ted 



of medullary matter 



pmnas or leafits, with an odd one at the end 

 fmooth, deeply ferrated, and of a deep' g 



filling of two or th 



pal 



of 



fmall, white, and produced in large flat umbels or clufter 

 permanent^ placed above the germen, and divided into five fep;maits 



they are oval, veined 



the flowers an 



the caly 



i -■ 



th 



corolla is 



monopet 



divided into five obtufe fegments 



wheel-fhaped, fomewhat 



-'nd 



ct 



equ 



m 



the filaments are tapering, fpread 



gth,to the corolla, and crov/ne'd with 



the germen is oval, and furniihed 



the place of the ik.j\ 



ndifh. 

 prominent gland. 



anther 

 which 



mala : the fruit is a round fucculerit berry, of a blackifli'pTrp 



and contains three feeds, which are flat on one fide, and'angular on 



the other. It is a native of Britain, in moiil hedges and' woods, and 



d fupports three blunt ftig 



flowers in May and J 



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No 



6 



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3 K 



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