124 CAPRIFOLIACEiE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



5 in a slender-pedunculate glomerule : corolla of the terminal one 4 to 5-cleft, 

 of the others 5 to 6-cleft. — Subalpine, Arctic America to Colorado and east- 

 ward in the Northern States. 



2. SAMBUCUS, Tourn. Elder. 



Plants with large pith to the vigorous shoots, serrate leaflets, small flowers 

 in broad cymes, and red or black berry-like fruits. Stems with warty bark. 



* Compound cymes thyrsoid-paniculate ; the axis continued and sending off several 



pairs of branches : pith of year-old shoots deep yellow-hrown. 



1. S. racemosa, L. Stems 2 to 12 feet high; branches spreading: 

 leaves from pubescent to .nearly glabrous ; leaflets 5 to 7, ovate-oblong to 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, thickly and sharply serrate : thyrsiform cyme ovale 

 or oblong : flowers dull white, drying brownish : fruit scarlet. — S. pubens, 

 Michx. In cool districts, across the continent. 



2. S. melanoearpa, Gray. Glabrous, or young leaves slightly pubes- 

 cent : leaflets 5 to 7, rarely 9 : cyme convex, as broad as hiyh : flowers white : 

 fruit black, without bloom : otherwise much like preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xix. 7fi. Ravines of the Rocky Mountains of Montana to Oregon, and south 

 to New Mexico and California. 



* * Compound cymes depressed, 5-rai/ed ; external rays once to thrice 5-rayrd : 



pith of year-old shoots bright white. 



3. S. Canadensis, L. Plants 5 to 10 feet high, glabrous, except some 

 fine pubescence on midrib and veins of leaves beneath: leaflets (5 to 11) 

 mostly 7, ovate-oval to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower not rarely bifid 

 or with a lateral lobe ; stipols not uncommon, narrowly linear, and tipped with 

 a callous gland : fruit dark purple, becoming black, with very little bloom. — 

 From the S. Rocky Mountains eastward to Canada and Florida. 



3. VIBUBNUM, L. 



Shrubs or small trees, with tough and flexible branches, simple leaves, and 

 terminal depressed cymes of white flowers. — In our species the drupes are 

 light red, globose, acid and edible, with the stone very flat, orbicular, and 

 even, and the leaves palmately veined. 



1. V. paUCiflomm, Pylaie. Glabrous or pubescent, 2 to 5 feet high, 

 straggling : leaves of roundish or broadly oval outline, unequally dentate, many 

 of them either obsoletely or distinctly 3-lobed, about 5-nerved at base: cymes 

 small, terminating short and merely 2-leaved lateral branches, involucrate 

 with slender subulate caducous bracts, destitute of. neutral radiant flowers. — 

 Mountains of Colorado, northward and eastward in cold or mountainous 

 regions. 



4. LINNJEA, Gronov. Twin-flower. 



A trailing and creeping evergreen, with filiform branches, purplish rose- 

 colored sweet-scented flowers which are sometimes almost white. 



1 . L. borealis, Gronov. Somewhat pubescent : leaves obovate and rotund, 

 £ to 1 inch long, crenately few-toothed, somewhat rugose-yeiny, tapering into 

 a short petiole : peduncles filiform, terminating ascending short leafy branches, 



