CAPRIFOLIACE^E 



885 



Mountains and Santa Catalina Island, California, ascending on the Cascade and Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains to altitudes of 6000-8000; Nevada, King's Canon, Ormsby County; 

 Utah, Juab, Juab County, and the neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County; 

 Colorado, near Trinidad, Las Animas County; New Mexico, Sacramento Mountains, Otero 

 County; very abundant in the coast region; comparatively rare in the interior; of its largest 

 size in the valleys of western Oregon; northward, and east of the Cascade and Sierra Ne- 

 vada Mountains rarely arborescent; in southern California often with smaller leaves and 

 flower-clusters than northward; the var. nelutina rare and local, California, Goose Valley, 

 Shasta County; at altitudes of 6000-7000 on the Sierra Nevada in Sierra, Madera and 

 Kern Counties, and on Santa Catalina Island; Nevada, on Hunter's Creek, Washoe County, 

 at an altitude of 6000. 



Occasionally planted as an ornamental plant in the Pacific states, passing into 



Sambucus coerulea var. arizonica Sarg. 



Sambucus mexicana Sarg., not Presl. 



Differing from Sambucus coerulea in its 3-5, usually 3-foliate leaves with usually elliptic 

 long-acuminate leaflets glabrous or slightly pubescent when they appear, l'-3' long and 

 $'-!' wide, their stipels minute or rudimentary, smaller flower-clusters and fruit not more 

 than f in diameter. 



A tree, often 30 high, with stout spreading branches forming a compact round-topped 

 head, and slender branchlets glabrous or villose pubescent early in the season, usually be- 



Fig. 778 



coming glabrous. Bark of the trunk about |' thick, the light brown surface tinged with red 

 and broken into long narrow horizontal ridge-like scales. Wood light, soft, close-grained, 

 light brown, with thin lighter-colored sapwood of 2 or 3 layers of annual growth. 



Distribution. Banks of streams; Arizona, Grand View Trail, Grand Canon of the Colo- 

 rado River and near Flagstaff, Coconino County, Globe, Gila County, and banks of the 

 Rialta near Tucson, Pima County; common; New Mexico, near Silver City, Grant County; 

 southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura and Kern Counties). 



3. Sambucus callicarpa Greene. 



Leaves 6'-10' long, with a stout slightly grooved petiole and 5-7, usually 5, elliptic finely 

 or coarsely serrate leaflets, acuminate and long-pointed at apex, cuneate and often unsym- 

 metric at base, dark green and glabrous on the upper surface, paler and more or less villose- 

 pubescent on the lower surface, especially along the slender midrib, 2^'-5' long and '-2' 



