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ries borne in flat-topped clusters has been reported from Isle Royale, but it 

 has not been found recently. 



2. European Red Elder {Sambucus racemosa L.). — Tall shrub 4 to 

 10 feet high with light brown branchlets and smooth herbage; pith brown; 

 leaflets 5 to 7, egg-shaped or elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, 1% to 3^^ 

 inches long, long-pointed, rather coarsely toothed; flowers yellowish- white, 

 borne in dense ovoid clusters 1^2 to 2y2 inches long; berries red. 



Occanence. — LASSEN. YOSEMITE. common, 6.500 to 11,000 feet: Crane Flat; Ray- 

 mond Mountain; Tuolumne Meadows; Smedberg Lake; Isberg Lake trail; Johnson 

 Peak. KINGS CANYON: East Lake. SEQUOIA, 8,500 to 11,800 feet: Kaweah Gap; 

 Mount Guyot; Tuolumne Meadow; west of Black Rock Pass. ISLE ROYALE, common in 

 the woods: near old Rock Harbor lighthouse; Sumner Lake; Washington Harbor. 



2a. Pacific Red Elder (Var. calUcarpa (Greene) Jepson), fig. 140. — 



Spreading shrubs 6 to 15 feet high or small trees up to 20 feet high; leaflets 



light green, smooth e.xcept for fine hairs along the midribs below, 2 to 4 



inches long, long-pointed at tips, the margins toothed; flowers creamy-white, 



borne in round-topped clusters I1/2 to 3 inches across; berries bright red, the 



clusters becoming 5 inches across. 



Occurrence. — Olympic: creeks near Lake Crescent; Low Divide. MOUNT RAINIER, 

 common, 3,500 to 5,000 feet : Stevens Canyon ; Paradise Park. CRATER LAKE : Sun 

 Meadows, 6,500 feet; Wizard Island, along shore. 



Fig. 140. Pacific red elder (Samhucus racemosa var. calUcarpa). 



