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CAPRIFOLIACE^E 



local, but widely diffused. The whole plajit diffuses a musk-like 

 scent, whicli, however, is not perceptible if the plant be bruised. — 

 Fi. April, May. Perennial. 



2. Sambucu.s (Elder). — Trees, shrubs, tor large herbs, remark- 

 able for the large quantity of pith in the young branches ; leaves 

 pinnate ; flowers small, 5-nierous, in umbellate cymes ; sepals 



3 — i^ ; corolla rotate ; slaineus 5 ; ovary 3 -5-chambered ; ovules 7 in 

 each chamber : jruil a berry with 3 — 5 parchment-like enducarps. 

 (Name from the ( heek sanibuke, a musical uistrument, in making 

 which elder-wood is supposed to have bejn employed.) 



I. S. ii'iiira (Common Elder). — Stem \yoody, forming a small 

 tree ; hark corky ; leaves with a strong, unpleasant udour ; ci7;/c.s^ 

 with 5 principal branches ; lloicers cream-white, of a sickK' smell ; 

 berry small, globose, purple-black, polished, rarely green or white. 



