XL. CAPRIFOLIA CEiE . 5AMBU CUS. 



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Leyceste^r/^ Wall. Calyx 3-partecl, irregular. Corolla 5-parted, Berry 5- 

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

 green shrub. 



Sect. I. Sambu^ce^. 

 Genus I. 



5AMBU'CUS ToM) i. The Elder. Lm. 5j/s/. Pentandria Trig/nia. 



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

 Synunyme. Phyteuma l.our. Cuch. p. 138., but not of Lin. 



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

 which is believed to have been made of elder wood. 



Gen. Char., t^-r. Cah/x small, but divided into 5 deep segments, permanent. 

 Corolla rotate, urceolar, o-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Staintns 6, 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 c}mes, 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 



I 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 



i ti ey are all readily propagated by cuttings. 



A. Leaves pinnate. Flowers cymose or corymbose, 



X \. S. Ni^GRA L. The common, or hlack-f ruited. Elder. 

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



930. Sambflcus nigra. 



\ynonymes. Bourtry, or Bour Tree, Arntree, Scotch : Sureau, Fr. ; Hollander, Ger. ; Sambuco 

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



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