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somewhat faint smell, are welcome, because they tell of the 

 time of early summer and busy haymaking, and do a fair 

 share in adding to the perfumes of the toilet ; its berries so 

 black, so juicy, are much sought after to make the wine 

 that, mixed with the fragrant spice, furnishes a warm cup 

 on a cold winter^s night. Pleasant though this may be_, it 

 will be gladly given up by the advocates of temperance ; and 

 the S. racemosa (Fig, 42) will furnish no such temptation, for 

 we never heard of its pretty berries being made into wine. 

 These are rather smaller than those of the common Elder, of 

 a bright red, and ornament the mountain woods, though 

 usually the tree on which they grow is not so large as 

 S, nigra. The flowers are much the same, cream-coloured, 

 in umbels, stalked, the petals turned back, stamens five^ 

 and style with from three to five divisions. In mountainous 

 woods : abundant between Amsteg and Andermatt, on the 

 Briinig Pass, &c. 



43. Galium. — Bedstraw. 



(PLATE XXr.) 



There is scarcely any part of temperate Europe without 

 some kind of Bedstraw, of which England has its full share. 



