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RHUS CORIARIA. 3 ELM-LEAVED SUMACH, 7 
SYNO N YMA. Sumach. Pharm. Dale. 314. Ai Aon it. pas 
Lewis. 630. ‘Ed. New Difpenf: 292. Bergius, 237. Murray. 
iv, 25. Rhus folio ulmi. Baxb. Pin. 414. Rhus Coriaria. | 
Ger. Emac. 1474. Sumach five Rhus obfoniorum & coriariorum. 
Park. Theat. I450. Pes Grecis, Ic. Du Hamel, Traité des arbrese 
sures A ra 218. tab. 54. | 
ae -Pentandria Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 369. 
Gen. Cb. Cal. 5~partitus. Petala 5. ‘Bacea 1-fperma, | 
Sp. Gb. R. foliis pinnatis obtufiufeule ferratis ovalibus fubtus villofis. 
A SMALL tree rifing to the beight'« of ten Foie, atta, off many 
-divaricating bianches, and, covered with a brown hairy bark. Leaves 
-pinnated, alternate, confifting of feveral' pair of pinnz, which are 
‘ovato-lance-fhaped, obtufely ferrated, fmooth, above, hairy beneath, 
on fhort footitalks. Common, footftalk fomewhat winged, and ter- 
minated by a fingle leafit. Flowers often dioicous, numerous, {mall,. 
white, placed in large branched fpikes, Calyx five toothed, ered, 
perliftent, placed below the germen. Corolla of five petals, which 
are ovate, white, moftly ere. Filaments five, very fhort. Antherz 
_ fmall. Germen roundifh, about the length of the corolla. Style 
fcarcely vifible. Stigmata three, fomewhat cordate. Fruit a roundifh, 
one-celled red berry, containing a folitary round hard feed. 
‘This fpecies of Sumach is a native of the South of Europe, and 
appears from the Catalogus horti Oxonienfis to have been cultivated in. 
that garden previous to the year 1648, though it is ftill a fcarce plant 
in this country. » 
oe The genus, to witch this {pecies belongs, comprehends feveral 3 
{pecies which are known to be extremely poifonous, efpecially the: 
pes Toxicodendron, -radicans, and Vernix ; but the Coriaria is. 
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