HONEVSUCKT.K FA^ril.V 



-^31 



— Hedges ; common. The blossoms are used for making 

 perfume ; the berries for wine. Evelyn, speaking in its praise, 

 says : " If the medicinal properties of the leaves, bark, berries, 

 &c., were thoroughly known, I cannot tell \yhat our countryman 

 could ail for which he would not find a remedy, from every hedge, 

 either forsickness or wound.'' — Fl. June. Pierennial. 



2. S. Ebuhis (Dwarf Elder, Danewort). — A large herbaceous 

 plant, 2 — 4 feet high, with ovale, serrate, leafy stipules, 3 principal 



branches to its cymes, and pink tips to its petals. — fJushy places ; 

 not uncommi;>n. — Fl. July, August, f'erenni'al. 



3. ViEURNUJi (Guelder Kose). — Shrubs; leaves simple; flowers 

 5-merous, white or pink, in cymose clusters, small, or the outer 

 ones male or neuter with large corollas ; cQsolla rotate or bell- 

 shaped ; stigmas 3, sessile ; berry i -seeded. (Name, the Eatin 

 name for this or some similar plant.) 



1. r. Opnlus (Guelder Rose, ^^'ater Elder). — A shrub or small 

 tree : hark very acrid ; leaves smooth, 3 — 5-lpbed, stipulate, with 

 glands at the upper end of the stalk, assumin'g a rich vinous hue 

 before falling ; flowers in flat-topped cymes, the outer ones neuter 



