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The Filaments five, awl-fhaped, the length of the corolla. The 



Anthem roundifli 

 The Germen beneath, ovate, obtufe. The Style none, but Ui 



its place a bellied Gland. TheStiginas three, obtufe. 

 The Seed'vejfel a roundifh berry of one cell. 

 The Seeds three, angular on one fide and convex on the other. 



The Species, with us, are, 



1. Sambucus nigra. American Black-berried 



Elder. 



This rifes generally to the height of fix or eight 

 feet, with a ftem fometimes of two or three inches 

 in diameter. The leaves are generally compofed of 

 three pair of lobes and an odd one, which are fome- 

 what oval, pointed, fliarply fawed on their edges, 

 a little hairy on both fides, hght coloured under- 

 neath and joined to pretty large, channelled foot- 

 ftalks, placed oppofite* The flowers are produced 

 at the extremities of the fame year's fhoois in a kind 

 of umbel, of five principal parts, again divided: 

 they are white and are fucceeded by berries which 

 are blackifli when ripe. An infufion of the inner 

 bark is purgative. From the berries may be pre- 

 pared a fpirit, a wine, and an oil, which promote 

 urine, perfpiration and fweat. 



2. Sambucus canadenfis. Canadian Red-her" 



vied Elder. 



This grows naturally upon Mountain fides, or 

 moift, rich, (haded places, in the back parts of Penn- 

 fylvania. It has much the appearance of the other 

 kind, but produces red berries, which are ripe the 

 latter end of June, at the time the other is in flower. 



SMILAX. 



