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seen S. nigra in our English hedges assume the form and number of 

 leaflets of the Canadian variety, and in all that regards the cymes 

 and their flowers, berries and seeds, I can find no difference whatever 

 on the most minute and oft-repeated comparison. S. canadensis 

 abounds throughout America from Canada to Carolina and Georgia. 

 I have carefully examined the living plant from Quebec to Savannah, 

 and westward to Louisiana and Missisippi, and remarked no change 

 of character or habit throughout this vast area, except that in the 

 central and southern states it was mostly confined to swamps, whilst 

 in New England and Canada it grew more in drier places, fences, 

 &c, like the European tree, a difference attributable to the great di- 

 versity of climate under which it is found on that continent, requiring 

 a cooler or warmer locality according to the latitude. I have seen 

 this or our European elder thriving and flowering luxuriantly in the 

 sultry gardens of Barbados and Trinidad, where it is cultivated for 

 medicinal purposes. Loudon (Arboretum Brit. Art. Sambucus) ob- 

 serves of S. canadensis, that from the suffruticose character of the 

 branches, and the comparative tenderness of the plant, it is only fit 

 for dry shrubberies in favourable situations ; a strange thing, if true, 

 since this species must be exposed, over a great part of its native 

 country, to a degree of cold far surpassing any to which it can be 

 submitted in our own temperate land. Such a semi-herbaceous plant 

 I have never fallen in with wild, and suppose some half-shrubby, fo- 

 reign species of Sambucus may go under the name of canadensis in 

 our gardens and nurseries. I have the true S. canadensis now copi- 

 ously under cultivation from seed I collected in Upper Canada, and 

 soon hope to establish its identity with our European elder by actual 

 experiment. 



Viburnum Lantana. In dry, elevated, or rocky woods and 

 thickets, on bushy hills, banks and in hedges, sometimes on old walls ; 

 extremely common throughout the county and island, wherever the 

 soil is at all calcareous. Less frequent on the clay or eocene forma- 

 tions, yet not uncommon about Hyde, in Quarr Copse, and most 

 woods about that town. Abundant amongst the rocks at Eastend, 

 and from thence all along the Undercliff a prevailing shrub. In up- 

 land woods betwixt Shanklin and Bonchurch, also about Newport, 

 Carisbrook, Gatcomb, Shorwell, Calbourne, Yarmouth, &c, in plenty. 

 About Winchester, Petersfield, Selborne, Andover, and most other 

 parts of the county on the chalk, abundantly. Rare on the green 

 sand. A conspicuous ornament of our woods and hedges at all sea- 

 sons, in early summer enlivening them with its dense, hemispherical 



