86 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Sambucus. 



small and dense. Involucre five-cleft, awl-shaped, spreading, 

 shorter than the umbel. Stem slightly furrowed. Leaflets about 

 seven cut, the odd one, twice the size of the others. Seeds flat, 

 bristly; the border thicker, prickly, i-ed. On the north, and 

 , , west sides of the Parks : also on a bank beyond Jericho, about a 

 quarter of a mile N. W. from the Oxford Observatory. Bx. 1819. 

 Ray suspected this plant not to be a native, but an outcast from 

 the garden. 



PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



VIBURNUM. Guelder-rose. 



V. Ldntana. Mealy G. Way -faring Tree. Leaves 

 heart-shaped, saw-toothed, veiny ; downy beneath. E. 

 B. 331. Lantana. G. E. 1490. 



Woods, liedcjes, especially on a chalky, or limestone soil. Sm. 



Shrub. May. 



Thickly branched : twigs round, mealy with radiated pubescence, 



like that of the fl.-stalks, backs, and upper sides of the leaves. 



Ls. opposite, somewhat elliptic, at the base heart-shaped, blunt, 



strongly veined. F'l. terminal cymes, white. Anth. yellow. 



Berry compressed : when young, red on the outermost side : 



when ripe, all black. Ls. dark-red in autumn. 



Young shoots in the Crimea, for tubes of tobacco pipes. Bark of 

 the root for birdlime. Berry astringent. The long, quick grow- 

 ing, tough branches, excellent bands for fagots. 

 V. 'Opulus. Common G. Water Elder. Leaves 



lobed. Foot-stalks beset with glands. E. B. 332. 

 Sambucus aquatilis, sive palustris. G. E. 1424. 

 Watery liedges, and swampy thickets. 

 Shrub, or small Tree. May. 

 Smooth. Ls. three-lobed. Cymes white, many flowered : perfect 



ones small, like those of the elder : marginal abortive ones of one 



large irregular, flat pet. Berry very succulent, bright, red, 



bitter. Autumnal Is. fine pink. 



Guelder rose of the garden bears round bunches of abortive fl. 

 only, called Snow-hall Tree, 



SAMBU'CUS. Elder.' 



S. 'Ebulus. Dwarf E. Danewort. Cymes with three 

 main branches. Stipulas leafy. Stem herbaceous. 



' EUarn. Anff.=Sax. 



