6 40. CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 



Belmont" (Gard. Flo. Forf.), in regard to which it appears 

 better to wait fiirther information before receiving them as 

 native habitats. I do not know in what comity or province 

 the locality of Mickleour is to be placed. 



504. Sambucus nigra, Linn. -^ ^^- ^- /"'^V 



Area general ? 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Argyle, Fife ; — or Orkney, Caithness. 



Estimate of provinces 16 (18). Est. of counties 60 (75). 



Latitude 50 — 56 (60). British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends (introduced \) to 250 yards, in E. Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47 (45) . 



Native. (Denizenin North Scotland.) Sylvestral and 

 Septal. Frequent through the greater part of Britain, al- 

 though its present northern limit may have been canned to 

 a higher latitude by human aid. In the unpublished Flora 

 of Orkney, by Dr. Gillies, the Elder is stated to occur " on 

 rills in Hoy ; " and Lowe's list, in Barry's History, is cited 

 as the authority for this statement. The name of Sambu- 

 cus nigra is included in a list of plants observed near Reay, 

 on the north coast of Caithness, by myself, in 1832 ; but I 

 do not now recollect the circumstances under which it was 

 observed. The Rev. G. Gordon enumerates it among the 

 plants of Ross-shire, and also as being frequent in Moray; 

 but he expressly intimates his opinion that the Elder had 

 been originally introduced into the North of Scotland. 

 Mr. Stables also mentions it in the Alvah Catalogue 

 (Banffshire) as frequent but introduced. In the Flora 

 Abredonensis, it is stated to be frequent in the vicinity of 



