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ELDER 



(yS) Buds open and irregularly elongated, 



exposing the tips of the young green leaves 



jjrojecting beyond the bud-scales, wliich are 



few, short, reddish, broivn and membranous. 



Lenticels conspicuous. 



Sambucus nigra, L. Elder (Fig. 75). Twigs pale 

 grey, somewhat angular at the apex, and .some of them 



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Fig. 75. Elder, Samhucm nigra (D). 



