ORD, XXXVII, Dumose. §99 
SAMBUCUS EBULUS, DWARF ELDER. 
SYNONYMA. Ebulus. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 415. Dale. $19. 
Alston. i. 485. Lewis. 376. Ed. New Dis. 184. Cullen. ii. 534. 
Bergius. 240. Murray. to. 22. Sambucus humilis seu Ebulus. 
Bauh. Pin. 456. Ebulus sive Sambucus humilis. Gerard Emac. 
1426. Park. 209. Ray. Syn. 461. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 671. 
S. Ebulus. Huds. Ang. 130.. Withering. Bot. Arr. 319. Flor. 
Lond. 213. : 
Pentandria Trigynia, Lin. Gen. Plant. 372. 
Gen, Ch. Cal, 5-partitus. Cor. 5-fida. Bacca 3-sperma, 
Sp. Ch. S. cymis tripartitis, stipulis foliaceis, caule herbaceo. 
ROOT long, creeping. Stalk six feet in height, herbaceous, 
erect, roundish, smooth, channelled, swelled at the joints, sending 
off opposite branches. Leaves opposite, pinnated, composed of 
four or five pair, with an odd one at the extremity : pinne some- 
what lanceolate, unequal at the base, serrated, veiny, downy 
underneath. Stipulz quadruple, nearly heart-shaped. Flowers 
in a terminal corymbus, divided into three branches, composed of 
numerous cyma, Calyx divided into five teeth, which are short, 
erect, pointed. Corolla monopetalous, wheel-shaped, divided into 
five segments, which are ovate, pointed, hollow, reflexed. Fila- 
ments five, thick, white, of the length of the corolla, Anthere 
large, double, changing from a reddish to a blackish colour. 
Germen below the corolla, ovate, soméwhat angular, smooth. 
Stylenone. Stigmata three, glutinous, reniform. Feit a ayes 2 
black single-celled berry, containing three irregul a 
It is not unfrequent in hedges, flowering in June ail suly but 
seldom bringing its fruit to maturity. 
