RHUS RADICANS. 
Poison Ivy. 
PLATE XLU, 
Lice the Rhus vernix, described in our first 
yolume, this plant is regarded with aversion, and 
_ too frequently furnishes cause to be remembered 
by persons of susceptible constitution, who un- 
warily become exposed to its poisonous influence. 
The general recognition of its deleterious charac- 
ter is evinced in the application of the names 
Poison vine, Poison creeper, and Poison Ivy, 
which are given to it in all parts of the United 
States. 
The Rhus radicans is a pretty common 
inhabitant of the borders of fields and of woods 
in most soils which are not very wet. Its mode 
of growth is much like that of the common 
ereeper, the Ampelopsis quinquefolia of Michaux ; 
and like that vine, and the European Ivy, it 
would doubtless be cultivated for ornament, were 
