XL. CAPRIFOLIA‘CEZ: SAMBU‘CUS. 513 
Leyceste‘rr4 Wall. Calyx 5-parted, irregular. Corolla 5-parted. Berry 5- 
celled, crowned by the calyx. Cells many-seeded. A rambling sub-ever- 
green shrub. 
Sect. I. Sampu‘cem. 
Genus I. 
A 
SAMBU'CUS Tow... Tue Exvper. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Trig ¥nia. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., 376. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 321. ; Don’s Mill.,3. p. 436. 
Synonyme. Phytedma Lour. Cock. p. 138., but not of Lin. 
jerivatic From buké, which the Latins have changed to buca, a ical instrument 
which is believed to have been made of elder wood. 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx small, but divided into 5 deep segments, permanent. 
Corolla rotate, urceolar, 5-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 5, about the 
Jength of the corolla. Filaments awl-shaped. Anthers roundish, and heart- 
shaped. Style none. Stigmas 3, obtuse. Berry globular, pulpy, of 1 cell, 
containing 3—5 seeds, which are convex on the outside, and angular 
inside. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves compound, opposite, bistipulate, deciduous ; stalked: leaflets 
toothed, pinnate, or jagged, often biglandular at the base. Flowers white 
or purplish, in terminal cymes, which are in some flat, and in others thyrsoid. 
Berries purplish, cathartic.—Those plants of the genus which have pinnate 
or jagged leaflets, are not true species, but only varieties; all the true species 
having only toothed leaflets. 
Trees, low, deciduous, natives of Europe and North America ; ornamental 
for their compound leaves, and large terminal cymes of flowers ; which are 
succeeded by purplish, red, white, or green berries, from which a wine is made. 
All the species are of easy culture, in good soil, rather moist and loamy ; and 
they are all readily propagated by cuttings. 
A. Leaves pinnate. Flowers cymose or corymbose. 
¥ 1. S.nt‘cra LZ. The common, or black-fruited, Elder. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 385.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 437. 
930. Sambucus nigra. 
Synonymes. Bourtry, or Bour Tree, Arntree, Scotch; Sureau, Fr.; Hollander, Ger.; Sambuco 
hal 3 Suco, and Sabuco, Span. ; Flaeder, Swed. ; Hylde, Dan. 
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