XL. CAPRIFOLIA V CE, I SAMBU\:US. 



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LEYCESTE V R/^ Wall. Calyx 5- parted, irregular. Corolla 5-parted. Berry 5- 

 celled, crowned by the calyx. Cells many-seeded. A rambling sub- ever- 

 green shrub. 



Sect. I. 



GENUS I. 



SAMBITCUS Tourn. THE ELDER. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Trigynia. 



Identification. Tourn. Inst.. 376. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 321. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 436. 

 Synonyme. Phyteuma Lour. Cock. p. 138., but not of Lin. 



Derivation. From sambuke, which the Latins have changed to sambuca, a musical instrument 

 which is believed to have been made of elder wood. 



Gen. Char., $c. Calyx small, but divided into 5 deep segments, permanent. 

 Corolla rotate, urceolar, 5-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 5, about the 

 length of the corolla. Filaments awl-shaped. Anthers roundish, and heart- 

 shaped. Style none. Stigmas 3, obtuse. Berry globular, pulpy, of 1 cell, 

 containing 3 5 seeds, which are convex on the outside, and angular 

 inside. (Don's Mill^) 



Leaves compound, opposite, bistipulate, deciduous ; stalked : leaflets 

 toothed, pinnate, or jagged, often biglandular at the base. Flowers white 

 or purplish, in terminal cymes, which are in some flat, and in others thyrsoid. 

 Berries purplish, cathartic. Those plants of the genus which have pinnate 

 or jagged leaflets, are not true species, but only varieties; all the true species 

 having only toothed leaflets. 



Trees, low, deciduous, natives of Europe and North America ; ornamental 

 for their compound leaves, and large terminal cymes of flowers ; which are 

 succeeded by purplish, red, white, or green berries, from which a wine is made. 

 All the species are of easy culture, in good soil, rather moist and loamy ; and 

 they are all readily propagated by cuttings. 



A. Leaves pinnate. Flowers cymose or corymbose. 

 t 1. S. Ni\3RA L. The common, or black-fruited, Elder. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 385. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 437. 



J30. Sambiiciu nigra. 



Synonymes. Bourtry. or Bour Tree, Arntree, Scotch: Sureau, F) . ; Hollander, Ger. ; Sainbuco 

 Ital. ; Sauco, and Sabuco, Span. ; Flaeder, Swed. ; Hylde, Dan. 



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