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The smooth bark of the trunk and branches is ashy grey 

 in the summer months, but, as winter advances, they tend 

 to a lighter and more lurid tone. The leaves are pinnately- 

 divided; the small whitish-green flowers and the grey- 

 green berries, in slender clusters, resemble those of the 

 Poison Ivy. 



"Beyond the fern," Mr. Scoville writes in his picturesque 

 way, "I met that pale-grey vitriol thrower, the Poison 

 Sumac, with its corpse-colored berries, growing out from 

 the side of the twigs instead of from the end as do the berries 

 of the harmless varieties." 



One other member of the Cashew Family has been re- 

 ported. 



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