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Samhucus Nigra, Black or Common 

 Elder - Tree — Befcri Jed, Samhucus, 

 With a tree-like fiem, and cymofe, five-parted 

 urn, eh of flowers, fueceedtd by large 

 umbellate .dufters of black, and other 

 coloured berries, in the different varie- 

 ties, ripening in Autumn, viz. 



Common Elack-Berried-Elder, 

 White-Berried -Elder. 



The Elder-tree grows twenty or 

 thirty feet high, with a fpreading head, 

 garnifhed with winged leaves of two or 

 three pair of lobes, terminated by an 

 odd one, and large broad umbellate 

 clutters of imall- white, five-parted 

 flowers, in Summer, at the end of the 



branches, 



