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Sam* There is a large plant with a bufhy 
bucu *' purplifh flower, under that hedge* It 
bears fome refemblance, both in leaf 
and bloflbm, to the common Elder- 
tree. It is indeed very nearly allied to 
it. We eall it in Englifh, Dwarf Elder, 
or Danewort, becaufe, we are told, 
that it firft fprang up in this kingdom 
from the blood of the Danes that were 
mafTacred here. It is the Sambucus ebu~ 
lus, with the purple juice of whofe 
berries, Pan, in Virgil's tenth Eclogue, 
is fuppofed to have fmeared his face. 
Pan deus Aracadite vem't t quern vidimus ipfi t 
Sanguineis Rbuli baccis minloque rebentem, 
If you examine the flowers, you will find 
it to be of the Clafs and Order Pentandria 
Trigynia, and of that divifion in which the 
corolla jftands above the germen. Its gene- 
ric character is Calyx and Corolla of 5 
fegments; berry containing three feeds. As 
to the fpecies, there can be no difficulty, be- 
caufe there are but two, and one of thefe is 
a tree. You will find a good engraving of 
this plant in the Flora Londinenfis. 
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