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ters of S. glauca and ^S. racemosa, but is principally of the first, 

 and his type specimens are from trees of 5*. 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 5". racemosa^ in which latter 

 the corolla lobes moreover are closely reflexed against the ped- 

 icel. The eastern shrub, >S". pubcns, is easily distinguishable 

 from both by a character not hitherto mentioned, i. <?., the large, 

 rounded and very conspicuous winter-buds. The red-berried 

 elder of the northern woods from Oregon to Alaska is not 6". 

 racemosa, for it has, like our species, very ample and almost flat- 

 topped cymes; but neither am I confident of its identity with 5. 

 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 S. callica^'pa the beautiful, 

 scarlet-berried elder common in California, and called S. race- 

 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 5". racemosa, 

 callicarpa and melanocarpa. That the American S. pubeyis is 

 distinct from racemosa I indicated in the Flora Franciscana." f 



This remarkable group of Samhicus 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. 

 t Pitt, ii, 297. 



