. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 268 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vol. III. Shrubs or vines. Fruit a few-seeded berry. Corolla short, campanulate, regular, or nearly so. Corolla more or less irregular, tubular or campanulate. Fruit a 2-celled capsule; corolla funnelform. 5. Symphoricarpos. 6. Lonicera. 7. Diervilla, i. SAMBUCUS [-Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 269. 1753. Shrubs or trees (or some exotic species perennia
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 268 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vol. III. Shrubs or vines. Fruit a few-seeded berry. Corolla short, campanulate, regular, or nearly so. Corolla more or less irregular, tubular or campanulate. Fruit a 2-celled capsule; corolla funnelform. 5. Symphoricarpos. 6. Lonicera. 7. Diervilla, i. SAMBUCUS [-Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 269. 1753. Shrubs or trees (or some exotic species perennial herbs), with opposite pinnate leaves, serrate or laciniate leaflets, and small white or pinkish flowers in compound depressed or thyrsoid cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, 3-5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla rotate or slightly campanulate, regular, 3-5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla; filaments slender; anthers oblong. Ovary 3-5-celled; style short, 3-parted; ovules I in each cavity, pendulous. Drupe berry-like, containing 3-5, i-seeded nutlets. Endosperm fleshy; embryo nearly as long as the seed. [Latin name of the elder.] About 25 species, of wide geographic distribution. In addition to the following, about 10 others occur in western North America. Type species: Sambucus nigra L. Cyme convex; fruit purplish black. i. S. canadensis. Cyme thyrsoid-paniculate, longer than broad; fruit red. 2. S. racemosa. 1. Sambucus canadensis L. Amer- ican Elder. Sweet or Common Elder. Fig. 3955. Sambucus canadensis L. Sp. PI. 269. 1753. A shrub, 4°-io° high, glabrous or very nearly so, the stems but little woody, the younger ones with large white pith. Leaflets 5-11, usually 7, ovate or oval, acuminate or acute at the apex, short-stalked, glabrous above, sometimes pubescent beneath, 2'-s' long, sharply serrate, sometimes stipellate; cymes convex, broader than high; flowers . white, about ii" broad; drupe deep purple or black, nearly 3" in diameter; nutlet
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