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and its bright berries with the brown of the 

 needles is so charming that one wonders that it 

 has not been copied for our indoor carpetings. 

 A low glass dish filled with wood earth and con- 

 taining a root or two of Ebony Fern, a little 

 Rattlesnake Plantain, and a few vines of the Par- 

 tridge Berry will serve all winter to shut-ins as 

 a most delightful reminder of the woods. 



The plant is named for Dr. John Mitchell, an 

 early Virginian botanist. 



RED-BERRIED ELDER 



Sambucus pubens. Sambucus racemosa 

 Honeysuckle Family 



Fruit The red berrylike drupes grow in 

 compact pyramidal clusters. Each fruit is glob- 

 ular and crowned with remnants of calyx and 

 style. The inclosed seedlike nutlets number 

 from three to five. June. 



Leaves. The opposite leaves are compound 

 with five to seven ovate-lanceolate leaflets. These 

 are finely toothed and acute. 



Flowers. The small cream- white flowers, 

 with their pale yellow stamens, grow in com- 

 pound pyramidal cymes. April, May. 



