ELDER : WAYFARING TREE 



345 



H.QUNTHER..XA 



Fig. 140. Elder, Sambucus nigra. 1, flowering shoot ; 2, flower in ver- 

 tical section, enlarged; 3, fruit; 4, floral diagram, p. 344 (Wo). 



Ovary with 3 short styles; fruit a drupe; 



simple. 



f~~l Flowers all alike, small and perfect ; 

 corolla shortly funnel-shaped; stamens 

 hardly exserted; drupe flattened, black. 



Viburnum Lantana, L. Wayfaring Tree. Shrub, with 

 opposite mealy leaves. Flowers in dense flat-topped 

 corymboid cymes, all alike, small and hermaphrodite. 

 Homogamous, with exposed honey, and strong odour. 

 Corolla white, regular. Stigmas 3, sessile. Fruit oval, 

 compressed, mealy, passing through red to black. 



Corolla rotate; outer flowers of the cyme 

 with larger corollas, and devoid of func- 

 tional stamens and pistil; drupe globose, 

 red. 



