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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



" Flora Marlb." Not general in Wilts. Flowers larger than in the 

 common Elder, white, tipped with dark rose-red or purple, of a 

 strong peculiar odour. Segments of the corolla with an inflexed 

 point.; Filaments white, singularly thickened, uneven on their 

 surface. Anthers purple. 



2. S. nigra (Linn.) common or black-berried Elder. Engl. Bot. 



t.m. 



Locality. In woods, thickets, copses, and hedge-rows, especially 

 on chalk. Tree, Ft. June, July, Fr. August, September. Area, 

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts. 1 The flowers and leaves of this 

 tree have a scent which is unpleasant to many, and which has 

 much analogy to that of the black currant. 



Viburnum, (Linn.) Guelder-rose. 

 Linn. CI. v. Ord. iii. 



Name. According to Vaillant, the word Yiburnum is derived 

 from the Latin vieo, to tie ; on account of the pliability of the 

 branches of some species. Yiburna in the plural appears to have 

 been applied by the ancients, to any shrubs that were used for 

 binding or tying. 



1. Y. Lantana (Linn.) Mealy Guelder-rose, "Way-faring -tree. 

 Lantana was the old name of Viburnum, now applied to the species. 

 The young shoots, and under surface of the leaves are thickly 

 clothed with stellated tufts of down, communicating a mealy 

 appearance, and hence the English name Meal-tree, or Mealy 

 Guelder-rose. Wayfaring-tree, from growing in hedges, by the 

 road-side. Engl. Bot. t. 331. 



Locality. Hedges and thickets, especially where the soil is at all 

 calcareous. Tree, Fl. May, June, Fr. August, September. Area, 



1 " Elders grow every- where. At Bradford the side of the high hill which 

 faces the South, about Mr. Paul Methwin's house, is covered with them. I 

 fancy that that pent might be turned to better profit, for it is situated as well 

 for a vinyard as any place can be, and is on a rocky gravelly ground. The 

 apothecaries well know the use of the berries, and so doe the vintners, who buy 

 vast quantities of them in London, and some doe make no inconsiderable profit 

 by the sale of them." " Aubrey } a Nat, Hist. Wilts " p. 56. 



