88 SAMBUCUS PUBENS. RED- BERRIED ELDER. 



And slow through the rock its pathway hewing ! 

 Far down through the mist of the falling river, 

 Which rises up like an incense ever, 

 The splintered points of the crags are seen, 

 With water howling and vexed between, 

 While the scooping whirl of the pool beneath 

 Seems an open throat, with its granite teeth " — 



in just such a piece of scenery as this from Whittier's descrip- 

 tion of the Merrimac, the writer once saw it in surpassing 

 beauty. It was from this spot that the seeds were obtained 

 which furnished plants for the ihustration here given. The 

 berries are scarcely as large as when growing in its Rocky 

 Mountain home, or perhaps as generally seen in high mountain 

 ranges. It is usually found in the high mountainous ranges of 

 the continent. Mr. Hall found it in Oregon, though rather rare, 

 and, as he says, only in " thickets about the lower cascades," 

 indicating here also the spray-loving habit already noted in con- 

 nection with its Rocky Mountain home. In Utah Mr. Watson 

 found it in the Wahsatch Mountains at elevadons of from six to 

 nine thousand feet. Brewer and Watson, in the Botany of the 

 Californian Geological Survey, note it as being found in the 

 mountain woods of that State, extending northwardly even to 

 Alaska. In the Atlantic States it extends southwardly along the 

 Alleghenies to North Carolina, which seems about the most 

 southern point it has reached in the eastern part of our territory; 

 as Oakland, California, seems to be in the west. 



Explanations of the Plate. — i. Warty branch of last year. 2. Branch with unexpanded 

 flower buds. 3. The same in fruit. 4. Expanded flower slightly magnified, giving a full- 

 face view. 5. Side view of the same, showing the insertion of the anthers, and recurved 

 petals. 



