400 PENTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Sambucus. 
whole of the umbel consists of neutral florets, contracted into a globular 
form. 
Common Guelder-rose. "Water-elder. (Irish: Keora con. Welsh: 
Gwifwrnwydd y gors ; Corswigen. E.) Woods and wet hedges. 
S. May—June. Berries ripe in Sept. 
SAMBU'CUS. # Cal. five-toothed: Bloss. regular, with five 
shallow clefts: Berry juicy, (one-celled, three-seeded. 
E.) 
S. e'bulus. Tufts with three divisions: leaves winged: leafits lan¬ 
ceolate, rarely fewer than four pair: stipulse leaf-like : stem her¬ 
baceous. 
Curt. —( E. Bot. 475— FI. Dan. 1156. E.)— Woodv. 260— Blackw. 488— 
Mill. 126— Matth. 1210—Lob. Obs. 589. 2—Ger. Em. 142 6—J. B. i. a. 
549. 2—Fuchs. 65—Ger. 1238 —Trag. 796—Park. 209. 7. 
Stems very brittle. Leaves winged, with several pair of leafits. Lea/its 
spear-shaped, serrated, unequal at the base, the upper margin deficient. 
Woodw. Stem and leaf-stalks furrowed. Little leaves at the base of the 
leaf-stalks heart-shaped. Calyx segments sometimes six, purple. Blos¬ 
som segments pointed, white above, purple beneath. Anthers purple; 
one fixed on each side of every filament, so that there are, properly 
speaking, ten anthers. Berry globular, black, often defective. Leafits 
narrow compared with those of S. nigra , exhibiting an obviously dif¬ 
ferent appearance, sometimes six or seven pairs, and more finely ser¬ 
rated. E.) 
Dwarf Elder. Dane-wort. (Irish: Ballfurt. Welsh: Corysgawen; 
Creulys mawr; Ysgawen bendiged. E.) Hedges and road sides. Tut- 
bury Castle, Staffordshire. Mr. Pitt. On Goose-green, near Dalton, 
Lancashire. Mr. Atkinson. (Among rubbish and ruined foundations of 
the Priory, Selborne, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. Alston Moor, Cum¬ 
berland. Rev. J. Harriman. South bank of the Water of Leith. Mr. 
Maughan. Grev. Edin.) Warboys, Huntingdonshire ; and Honingham, 
Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Common in hedges of Bedfordshire. Abbot; 
and Cambridgeshire. Relhan. In Rainrow, road side Bridge, near Good¬ 
win’s Mill, Cheshire. Ray. Very near Aspatria, Cumberland, and only 
in one field, east of the town. Rev. J. Dodd, in Bot. Guide. Between 
Llansannan Church and the river, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. On a 
small declivity near Bryn, Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. In Spetisbury Town 
Street, and in hedges above the village, near the Rings, Dorsetshire. 
Pulteney. Lane between Causey Hall and Beamish Burn, Durham. Mr. 
Winch. Near Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, and near Housbourn. 
Mr. E. Forster, jun. Bot. Guide. Near the church at Southwood, Nor¬ 
folk, abundantly. Rev. G. R. Leathes, ditto. Below Scarborough Castle 
walls. Rev. Archdeacon Pierson. At the foot of Tam worth Castle Hill, 
towards the river. Hedge bank in a field below the Frith Wood, near 
Pains wick. Mr. O. Roberts. Near Grafton Church, Warwickshire. Pur- 
ton. Beaulieu Abbey, and Hordle churchyard, Hants. Watling-street 
Road, where crossed by the footpath from Norton to Whilton, Northamp¬ 
tonshire. A few hundred yards from Knowle, by the side of the road 
leading to Warwick. Moreton Morrel churchyard, same county. Bar¬ 
ren hills above the Avon, St. George’s, near Bristol. S. Ebulus has not 
* (So called from Sambuca , a musical instrument of the ancients, (perhaps the same as 
the Italian pipe Sampogna), usually made of this plant. E.) 
