Sambucus. | XXXIX. CAPRIFOLIACES. 207 
with a border of 5 small teeth. Corolla with a very short tube, and 5 
spreading divisions, so as to appear rotate. Stamens 5, inserted at the 
base of the corolla. Stigma sessile, 3- to 5-lobed. Fruit a berry, or, 
strictly speaking, a berry-like drupe, with 8, rarely 4, seed-like stones, 
each containing a single seed. 
The genus consists of but few species, spread over Europe, temperate 
Asia, North America, and Australia, and is the only one in the family 
with pinnate leaves. 
Tree, Leatiets ovate, without stipular lobes . . 1,8 Nigra, 
Herb. Leaflets lanceolate, the lowest short, br oad, and close to the 
stem, representing stipules : : ; ; : . 2. &§. Ebulus. 
The S. racemosa, or red-berried pie common in our shrubberies, is a 
native of the mountains of continental Europe. 
1. S. nigra, Linn. (fig. 462). Common /.—A small tree, or shrub, 
with the stem and branches full of pith. Leaf-segments 5 to 7, ovate, 
pointed, 2 to 3 inches long, regularly and sharply toothed, and nearly 
glabrous, Corymbs, 5 or 6 inches broad, several times branched, the 
first time into 4 or 5, but the branches less numerous at each subsequent 
division. The bracts very minute. Flowers white or cream coloured. 
Fruits black. . 
In woods, coppices, and waste places, common in central and southern 
Europe to the Caucasus, and extending itself readily from cultivation 
further northward. Appears to be truly indigenous in England and 
Ireland, but only introduced into Scotland. /V. summer, rather early. 
A garden variety has deeply and finely-cut segments to the leaves. 
2. S. Ebulus, Linn. (fig. 463). Dwarf £., Danewort.—Stock short and 
perennial, with annual, erect stems, thick and pithy, slightly branched, 
2to 3 feet high. Leaf-segments 7 to 11, lanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long, 
with a small one on each side of the leafstalk, on the stem itself, look- 
ing like stipules. Corymbs less regular, and rather smaller than in 
S. nigra, with only 3 primary branches. Flowers sweet- scented, of a 
pure white, or tinted with purple on the outside. Fruits black. 
On roadsides, in rubbishy wastes, and stony places, in central and 
southern Hurope, and west-central Asia, extending northward to southern 
Sweden. Occurs in many parts of Britain, and may be indigenous in 
some, although believed to have been everywhere introduced by the 
Danes. Fl. summer, later than the common E. 
III. VIBURNUM. VIBURNUM. 
Shrubs or small trees, with undivided or palmately-lobed leaves, and 
whitish flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx with a border of 5 small 
teeth. Corolla with a short campanulate tube (in some exotic species 
much longer) and 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 5, inserted near the 
base of the corolla. Stigmas sessile 3 or 2, or on very short styles. 
Ovary 3- or 2-celled in a very young stage, but at the time of flowering 
1-celled, with a single ovule. Fruit a 1-seeded berry. 
A rather large and widely-spread genus, extending further into the 
tropical regions of both the New and the Old World than any other of 
the family. The flowers, at first sight very much like those of Sambucus, 
have yet a more distinct tube, and the foliage is very different. 
