SAMBUCUS 255 



1. Isis. Cumnor. Lawson, iti Herb. Oxf. Idstone Wood. Besilsleigh. 



In fruit in a wood near Chawley. 



2. Ock. In a copse near Wootton Heath, and near Bagley Wood. 



Near Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Hot. n. 42 (1834). Near Kennington, 

 Whiiwell. Near Marcliam, Walker. Powder Hill Copse. Near 

 Tubney. Near Pusey. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. In Williams' Copse, East Ilsley, and 



some other woods, Lousley in Russell's Cat. 1839. Tilehurst, 

 Tufnail. In a coppice near Calcot Park in fruit. 



4. Kennet. Woods about Welford, Bunny, in Russell's Cat. Near 



Newbury AVorkhouse, Mr. Weaver. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. 

 Burghfield, Bird, 1833. Riever Wood. Near Farnborough. Irish 

 Wood. Hampstead Marshall. Enborne. 



5. Loddon. Blackwater, Penny. Near Sandhurst, Delamotte. Crazey 



Hill, Tufnail. Arborfield, Tayler. Wargrave. 

 The fruit appears to be only rarely produced, but often escapes 

 observation from its being hidden by other vegetation. 

 Acloxa is found in all the bordering counties. 



SAMBUCUS, Linn. Gen. n. 334 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 376). 

 S. nigra, Linn. Sp. PI. 269 (1753). Elder. 



S. vulgaris, Tragus and Neck. Delic. Gal. Belg. i. 156. 

 Top. Bot. 207. Syme, E. B. iv. 199, t. 637, Nyman, 321. Fl. Oxf. 146. 

 Native. Septal. Common and generally distributed in woods and 

 hedges throughout the county. It occurs not only in moist woods, 

 such as the coppice near Chawley Hurst, but is frequently to be 

 seen by the sides of the wind-swept Ridgeway, and also at ^n 

 elevation of over 900 feet on Gibbet Hill. Small Tree. May-July. 

 First record. Sonning, S. Rudge, 1800, in Herh. Brit. Mus. S. nigra, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 A cut-leaved form (S. laciniata, Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, 1768) is 

 planted in shrubberies, &c., for instance near the school-house, Tid- 

 marsh, but I have seen no wild specimens. 



Var. viRiDis, Alton, Hort. Kew. ii. 170 (1811), var. virescens, Koch, 

 Syn. Fl. Germ. This form, which has the berries green when ripe, 

 was found by Mr. J. Druce near Fyfield. 



The var. leucocarpa, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 324 (i837\ with white 

 berries, I have only seen in cultivation. The form with variegated 

 leaves is also found ; it is rather plentiful by the canal near Wantage 

 Road Station, where possibly it is a garden escape. Near Cookham some 

 plants occurred which had larger and rounder leaflets than usual. 

 In Kennington Lane the berries were unusually large in 1895. 

 Birds eat the berries, and seeds are thus disseminated and grow on 

 pollard willows and wall-tops. 



Sambiicus nigra occurs in all the bordering counties. 



