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lectcd about six miles south of the above place on Ruidoso Creek, 

 June 23, 1897. 



This species is most nearly related to S. kporella Bicknell, but 

 may be separated from that species by the narrower, shorter peti- 

 oled, more finely toothed leaves and the generally longer and more 

 narrowly conical fruit. 



* Sambucus Neo-Mexicana. 



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Arborescent, 3-5 m. high with erect rather smooth-barked 

 trunk 5-10 cm. in diameter, symmetrically branched above, form- 

 ing a round head 2-3 m. in diameter : leaves pinnately 3-7-folio- 

 late ; leaflets lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 6-12 cm. 

 long, 2-3 cm. wide, with inquilateral rounded base, acuminate, 

 thick, margin finely serrate-dentate ; petiolules I cm. long or less, 

 glabrous or puberulent : flowers cream-colored, in a flat-topped, 

 five-rayed compound terminal cyme 1-2 dm. across ; peduncles 

 and rays glabrous and slightly glaucous: fruit black, glaucous, 

 berries spherical, 6-j mm. in diameter, very numerous. 



Collected at Ruidoso Crossing, in the White Mountains, 



August 2 and 19. Altitude 6200 feet, no. 648. Also collected 



about five miles further up Ruidoso Creek, at an altitude of about 



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tains May 15, 1892, but this sends up numerous stems without a 

 main trunk and the young branches and peduncles are closely 

 puberulent. 



The White Mountain specimens agree fairly well with " S. 

 glauca var. foliolis auguste lanceolatis " Gray, PI. Wright. 2 :. 66, 



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m near the Copper Mines, October, 185 1, and the Organ 

 • fountain specimen agrees exactly with no. 423 of the Boundary 



Survey collections from Ben Moore Mountain, N. Mew, June, 



18 5 1. which Dr. Torrey refers to the plant mentioned by Dr. Gray. 

 This species seems to be somewhat intermediate between S. 

 *fexicana and S. glauca, i. c, taking the well-grown tree of the 

 valleys of southern New Mexico and Arizona and northern Mex- 

 ico to be the plant Presl had in mind when he wrote the name .V. 



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wate leaflets little over half as long as those of S. „ 



tiHa * lts fr uit is slightly smaller and in southern New Mexico is 



