CAPRIFOLIACEAE 14i 



Family CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 



A moderate sized family of no great use apart from gar- 

 dening, but containing some of the most used and most prized 

 plant materials of the landscape gardener. 



SAMBUCUS. Elder. 



Deciduous shrubs or straggling small trees with soft pale 

 wood with minute ducts, diffused or in a somewhat evident 

 tangential pattern, and rather fine medullary rays; stout terete 

 twigs often with large lenticels; large continuous rounded 

 pith; opposite rather large somewhat crescent-shaped leaf- 

 scars with 3-5 bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; ovoid often 

 superposed or collaterally multiplied buds with several pairs 

 of scales; pinnate leaves with toothed or sometimes incised 

 leaflets; small perfect gamopetalous wheel-shaped white flow- 

 ers in large showy clusters; and small normally black or red 

 inferior 3-seeded berries. 



1. Pith brown: fruit red. 2. 



Pith white: fruit typically black. 6. 



2. Petioles downy. (American red-berried elder). S. pubens. 

 Petioles glabrous. (European red-berried elder). 3. 



3. Leaves green. 4. 

 Leaves yellow. 5. 



4. Leaves not laciniate. S. racemosa. 

 Leaves laciniate. S. racemosa plumosa. 



5. Leaves not laciniate. S. racemosa aurea. 

 Leaves laciniate. S. racemosa plumosa aurea. 



6. Leaves rather fleshy and dark: twigs very warty. 



European. 7. 

 Leaves rather thin and paler. American. 10. 



7. Leaves green. 8. 



Leaves partly or wholly yellow or white. 9. 



8. Leaves not laciniate. S. nigra. 

 Leaves laciniate. S. nigra laciniata. 



9. Leaves whitish. S. nigra argentea. 

 Leaves entirely yellow. S. nigra aurea. 

 Leaves variegated with yellow. S. nigra variegata 



