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wind-instrument, in making which the wood was 

 anciently employed.) 



2. VIBURNUM (Guelder Rose). Calyx 5-cleft ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, 5-lobed ; stamens 5 ; stigmas 3, sessile ; 

 berry 1 -seeded. (Name, the Latin name of the plant.) 



3. LONICR A (Honey suckle). Calyx small, 5- toothed ; 

 corolla tubular, irregularly 5-cleft ; stamens 5 ; style 

 thread-shaped ; stigma knobbed ; berry 1 3-celled, with 

 several cells. (Named in honour of Adam Lonicer, a 

 German botanist.) 



4. LINN^EA. Calyx 5-cleft; corolla bell-shaped, 

 5-cleft, regular ; stamens 4, two longer ; fruit dry ; 

 3-celled, one cell only containing a single seed. 



1. SAMBUCUS (Elder). 



1. S. nigra (Common Elder). Stem woody ; cymes 

 with 5 principal branches. A small tree, abundant in 

 most places. Remarkable for the large quantity of pith 

 contained in the young branches, and for the elasticity 

 of its wood. The leaves are pinnate, of a strong and 

 unpleasant odour ; the floivers white and of a sickly 

 smell ; \hQfruit dark purple, or rarely white. Evelyn, 

 speaking in its praise, says : " If the medicinal proper- 

 ties of the leaves, bark, berries, &c., were thoroughly 

 known, I cannot tell what our countrymen could ail for 

 which he would not find a remedy from every hedge, 

 either for sickness or wound." Fl. June. Tree. 



* A smaller species (S. fibulus), Dwarf Elder, is occa- 

 sionally found in bushy places, and differs from the 

 preceding in having an herbaceous stem 2 3 feet high, 

 narrower leaves, and 3- cleft cymes. 



2. VIBURNUM (Guelder Rose). 



1. V. Lantdna (Wayfaring- tree, Mealy Guelder-rose). 

 Flowers in cymes, all perfect ; leaves elliptical, heart- 

 shaped at the base, serrated, very downy beneath. 



