( J 4i ) 
The Filaments five, aWl-fhaped, the length of the corolla, The 
Antherce roundilh. 
The Germen beneath, ovate, obtufe. The Style none, but in 
its place a bellied Gland. The Stigmas three, obtufe^ 
The Seed-veJJel a roundifli 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 Item fometimes of two or three inches 
in diameter. The leaves are generally compofed of 
three pair of lobes and an odd one, which are forne- 
what oval, pointed, fharply fawed on their edges, 
a little hairy on both fides, light coloured under- 
neath and joined to pretty large, channelled foot- 
(talks, placed oppofite. The flowers are produced 
at the extremities of the fame year’s fhoots in a kind 
of umbel, of five principal parts, again divided: 
they are white and are fucceeded by berries which 
are blackifh 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 prompte 
urine, perfpiration and fweat. 
2. Sambucus canadenfis. Canadian Red-ber- 
ried Elder. 
This grows naturally upon Mountain Tides, or 
moift, rich, fliaded 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. 
