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in the terminal one, very unequal at base, one side there % to 

 Vi inch shorter than the other and both sides ending almost 

 truncately, the margins so deeply and closely serrate as to 

 appear in a manner fimbriate, each serrature ending in a 

 slender point of some length, the very apex of each leaflet an 

 abrupt subulate entire point % to nearly /^ inch long : inflor- 

 escence broad and flat-topped ; fruit not seen. 



Collected in the Canada de las Uvas, mountains of Kern 

 Co., Calif., at an altitude of 2,700 feet, by Coville and 

 Funston, 5 July, 1901, being n. 1165 of the Death Valley 

 Expedition collections. Allied to .S". caerulea, Raf., as habit, 

 foliage and flowers plainly tell. 



The two following are of the red-berried division of the genus; 

 and there are clear indications of the existence of yet other 

 Species remaining und escribed, especially on the Pacific slope 

 of the continent. 



Sambucus acuminata. Shrub low, the scales of its large 

 winter buds ovate, acute, scabrous-ciliolate ; growing branches, 

 rachis of leaves, also veins of leaflets on both faces scabrous, 

 often almost hispidly so : leaflets 7, approximate, Z% to 5J^ 

 inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, rather unequally serrate 

 except as to the abrupt and long acumination, this mostly 

 entire ; base of leaflet unequal, the shorter margin ending 

 acutely, the longer obtusely : thyrsus on a stout peduncle of 

 2 or 3 inches, the cluster of large red berries broader than 

 high : seeds rugose. 



Apparently frequent at subalpine elevation in the isolated 

 San Francisco Mountains of northern Arizona. The oldest 

 specimens in U. S. Herb, were gathered by Edw. Palmer in 

 1869 and consist of flowering branches only. The same was 

 obtained in 1901 by both I,eiberg and McDougal ; also by 

 Brandegee in 1902 ; all these in flower only, but at agreement 

 in the marked characters of the foliage both as to form and 

 indument. The specimens in mature fruit were obtained in 

 Sept., 1909, by G. A. Pearson of the U. S. Forest Service. 



