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beds of the desert mountains. In southern California extending 
into the coastal slope through the Morongo Pass. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Eastern base of San Jacinto Mountain, 
Hall 2112; Warner’s ranch, San Diego County, Susan G. Stokes, 
Aug. 1895; Cushenberry Springs, north slope of San Bernardino 
Mountains, Abrams 2142; San Felipe, Abrams 3970. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckte Famity. 
Leaves pinnate; corolla rotate. 1. Sambucus. 
Leaves simple. 
Corolla short-campanualte, regular; berry white. 2. Symphoricarpus. 
Corolla tubular, irregular; berry red or black. 3. Lonicera. 
1. SAMBUCUS. ELpeEr. 
Fruit without bloom. 1. S. mexicana. 
Fruit with a glacuous bloom. 
Herbage pubescent. 2. S. velutina. 
Herbage glabrous. 3. S. coerulea. 
I. SAMBUCUS MEXICANA Presl.; DC. Prod. 4: 322. 1830. 
Type locality: “In Mexico.” 
Distribution: Southern California to Texas and south through 
Mexico and Costa Rica, according to Schwerin. I have not seen 
any specimen that can be referred to this species with certainty. 
but fruiting material has been seldom collected, and it may be that 
some of the material referred to the next species belongs here. 
*2. SAMBUCUS VELUTINA Dur. & Hilg. Pacif. R. Rep. 5: 8. 1855, 
Sambucus coerulea velutina Schwerin, Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 
1909: 37, 328. 1909. 
Type locality: ‘Pose Creek,” Kern County, California. 
Distribution: Southern Sierra Nevada and the mountains of 
southern California. The herbage is usually densely pubescent, 
but occasionally nearly glabrous forms occur. Upper Sonoran 
and Transition. 
Specimens examined: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, 
Hall 1347; Mount San Antonio, altitude 2400 meters, Abrams 2710; 
*After this paper went to the printer Greene (Leaflets 2: 99) described 
several new species of Sambucus, one of which, Sambucus coriacea, is the 
pubescent form in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. I 
had tentatively referred these plants to S. velutina. 
