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Psychotria nervosa lanceolata (Nuttall) Sargent. Balsamo. 



Range. — Florida (known now only from the vicinity of St. Augustine). 



- NAME IN USB 



Balsaino 

 Psychotria undata Jacquin. 



Range. — Southern Florida (coast region and keys); West Indies. 



Psychotria bahamensis Millspaugh. 



Range. — Native of West Indies; escaped from cultivation in southern Florida 

 (J. K. Small). 



Family CAPRIFOLIACE^E 



SAMBUCUS Linnaeus 



Sambucus simpsonii Render. 70 Florida Elder. 



Range. — Florida (from Duval County to Manatee County, and Lee County — 

 on Sanibel Island). 



NAMES IN USE 



Florida Elderberry. Florida Elder. 



Sambncus ccerulea Rafinesque. 71 Blueberry Elder. 



Range. — From southern British Columbia (Fraser River) and Vancouver 

 Island to the southern borders of California; eastward to western Montana and 

 Oregon (Cascades and Blue Mountains); in California to the terras; Utah 

 (Wasatch Mountains); Colorado (Las Animas County); New Mexico (Sacra- 

 mento Mountains). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Sambucus glauca Nuttall. 



NAMES IN USE 



Elder (Calif., Utah., Oreg.). Mountain Elder. 



Elderberry (Calif.). Blue Elderberry. 



Black Elderberry (Utah). Blueberry Elder. 



Sambucus coerulea velutina (Durand and Hilgard) Render. 



Velvet-leaf Elder. 



Range. — California (Shasta, Madera, and Kern Counties; Santa Catalina 

 Island); Nevada (Washoe County). 



Note on nomenclature. — Originally characterized as Sambucus velutina 

 Durand and Hilgard, under which it is still maintained by some authors. 



NAME IN USE 



Velvet-leaf Elder 



» Sambucus simpsonii Rehder is closely related to shrubby Sambucus canadensis Linnaeus, the American 

 or Sweet Elderberry, which occurs from Nova Scotia to Florida and westward to Manitoba, Kansas, and 

 Texas, but from which it differs in its smaUer pith, fewer leaflets (five to seven, the latter species having 

 seven to nine), and in its smaller flower clusters. The existence of a treelike Elderberry in Florida appears 

 to have been known for a good many years, but generally it has been treated as a form only of Sambucus 

 canadensis Linnaeus, and it is still so considered by authors. In the first edition of his Flora of Southern 

 United States, Chapman gives its extreme height as 16 feet, but without mention of its arborescent char- 

 acter. J. K. Small (Flor. S. E. U. S., 1121, 1903) was perhaps the first author to note it as a small tree, 

 sometimes 5 meters in height and 3 decimeters in diameter. 



Sambucus intermedia Carriere probably should be added to the tree elders occurring in Florida. J. K. 

 Small informs the writer (in a letter dated August 12, 1924) that, although usually a shrub, it frequently 

 reaches in Florida a diameter of 1 to 2 decimeters, or more. 



■ Sambucus ccerulea Rafinesque is 2 years older than Nuttall's name, and probably, therefore, should be 

 taken up. Its validity is based on the Lewis and Clark reference to an "alder" with "pale sky blue" 

 berries. So far as is now known there is but one blue-berried Elder in the Northwest, and this seems to be 

 Rafinesque's species. 



