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in cymes, 



2- Sambucus. — Trees or shrubby herlis ; leaves pinnate ; flou'er': 

 small, in umbellate C)-mes, 5-merous ; corolla rotate ; berry with 

 3 — 5 I -seeded chambers. 



3. ^'IBl■R^T•^I. — Shrubs; leaves simple; Jlowtrs 

 5-ivierr;us ; corolla rotate or bell-shaped ; bcny € -seeded. 



4- Lin x.k a. — 

 Herb ; leaves simple ; C^ 



flowers in pairs ; Wi^ 



corolla bell-shaped; 

 stamens didynamous; 

 jritit dry, i -seeded. 



5. LoxiciiRA. — 

 Shrubs; leaves sim- 

 ple ; -floiecrs in c\'- 

 mose heads ; corolla 

 mono symmetric ; 

 berry of 2 or 3 

 several-seeded cham- 

 bers. 



I. Adc'ixa (I\Ios- 

 chatel), — A small 

 glabrous, succulent 

 herb ; rhizome creep- 

 ing, scaly ; leaves 2, 

 radical, ternate; 

 flowers in a long- 

 stalked terminal 

 head of 5, small, 

 green, the 4 lateral 

 ones 5-merous, the 

 terminal one 4-mer- 

 ous ; corolla rotate ; 

 stamens 4 or 5, bifur- 

 cating at the base; 

 anthers dimidiate ; 

 berry with i -seeded 



parchment-like chambers. (Name from the 

 inglorious, from its humble growth.) 



I. A. Mosdtatellina (Common or Tuberous Moschatel). — The 

 only species, an interesting little herbaceous plaht, 4 — 6 in. high ; 

 stem 4-angled; radical leaves long-stalked, tej-nate ; leaflets tri- 

 ano-ular, lobed ; cauline leaves or bracts 2, smaller, with sheathing 

 petioles ; flowers arranged as if on 5 sides of a cube. — Hedgerows ; 



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