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DUMOS A. 
SAMBUCUS EBULUS. DWARF ELDER. 
SYNONYMA. Ebulus. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 415. Dale. 319. Alfom 
i. 485. Lewis. 370. Ed, New Dif. 184. Cullen. it. 534. Bergius. 
240.. Murray. iv. 22. Sambucus humilis feu Ebulus. Baub. 
Pin. 456. - Ebulus five Sambucus humilis. Gerard. Emac. 1420. 
Park. 209. Ray. Syn. 461. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 671. S. Ebulus. 
Hudf. Ang. 130. Withering. Bot. Arr. 319. Flor. Lond. 213. 
Pentandria Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Phin: 372s 
Gen. Ch. Cal. g-partitus. Cor. 5-fida. . Bacca 3-fperma. 
Sp. Ch. S. ie sme fiipulis rolinciéle, caule herbaceo. 
ROOT tone creeping. Stalk fin feet in ieieh ieeiccous, erect, 
roundith ,{mooth, channelled, fwelled at the joints, fending off oppofite 
branches. Leaves oppofite, ‘pinnated, compofed of four or five pair, 
with an odd oneat the extremity: pinng fomewhat lanceolate, unequal 
at the bafe, ferrated, veiny, downy underneath. Stipulz quadruple, 
nearly heart-fhaped. Flowers in a terminal corymbus, divided into 
three branches, compofed of numerous cymz. Calyx divided into 
five teeth; which are fhort,. ereét, pointed. Corolla monopetalous, 
wheel-fhaped, divided into five fegments, which are ovate, pointed, 
hollow, reflexed. Filaments five, thick, white, of the length of the 
corolla. Antherez large, double, chan; 
colour. Germen below the corolla, ovate, fomewhat angular, fmooth. 
_ Style none. Stigmata three, glutinous, reniform. Fruit a roundifh 
black fingle-celled berry, containing three irregularly-thaped feeds. 
It is not unfrequent in hedges, inane in Bae and July, but 
feldom ledge 3. its fruit to ee 3 
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