. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 852 The Elders with saccharine matter they are fermented into "elder-flower ; The dried flowers are used in decoction as a diaphoretic. The fruit is likewise made into wine, and when mixed with some acidulous fruit, as apples, is made into pies and jeUies. The woody stems with the large pith removed have been used as tubes, especially for tapping maple-sugar trees. The bark and root are said to be poisonous
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 852 The Elders with saccharine matter they are fermented into "elder-flower ; The dried flowers are used in decoction as a diaphoretic. The fruit is likewise made into wine, and when mixed with some acidulous fruit, as apples, is made into pies and jeUies. The woody stems with the large pith removed have been used as tubes, especially for tapping maple-sugar trees. The bark and root are said to be poisonous. 5. BLUEBERRIED ELDER — Sambucns glauca NuttaU This handsome tree, reaching a maximum height of about 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm., occurs from the mountain valleys of Utah north to Montana and Vancouver island, and west to southern CaKfomia. It is often a broad spreading shrub, also called Pale elderberry, Mountain elder. Black elder- berry, and Elder. The trunk is rather tall and straight, the spreading branches forming a round top. The dark brownish bark is deeply fissured and broken into small angular scales. The twigs, at first green and sparingly hairy, become hght brown and smooth, and are filled with a thick white pith. The leaves are yellowish green on the upper side, paler be- neath, smooth when mature, thick and firm in texture; they have a grooved leaf- stalk and are often sub- tended by leaf-like stipules; the 5 to 7 stalked leaflets are 8 to 12 cm. long, lan- ceolate to oblong, more or less taper-pointed, sharply toothed, and somewhat unequally rounded or narrowed at the base; the lower pair of leaflets are often more or less pinnately divided. The flowers are borne in rather open, usually 5-rayed flattish cymes i to dm. across, the corolla 4 to 6 mm. broad and deeply cleft into 5 broadly oval lobes. The subglobose fruit is large, often 7 mm. in diameter, bluish black and covered with a whitish bloom, sweet and juicy. The wood is soft, weak,
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