ORD. XXXVII. Dumose. 601 
RHUS CORIARIA. ELM-LEAVED SUMACH. 
SYNONYMA. Sumach. Pharm. Dale. 314. Alston. ti. 370. 
Lewis. 630. Ed. New Dispens. 292. Bergius. 237. Murray. 
iv, 25. Rhus folio ulmi.  Bauh: Pin. 414. Rhus Coriaria. 
Ger. Emac. 1474. Sumach sive Rhus obsoniorum & coriariorum. 
Park. Theat. 1450. Pes Grecis. Ic. Du Hamel, Traité des 
arbres. vol. 7. p. 218. tab. 59. 
Pentandria Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 369. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Bacca I-sperma. 
Sp. Ch. R. foliis pinnatis obtusiusculeé serratis ovalibus subtus villosis. 
A SMALL tree rising to the height of ten feet, sending off 
many divaricating branches, and covered with a brown hairy bark. 
Leaves pinnated, alternate, consisting of several pair. of pinne, 
which are ovato-lance-shaped, Sbtutely serrated, smooth above, 
hairy beneath, on short footstalks. Common footstalk somewhat 
winged, and terminated by a single leafit. Flowers often dioicous, 
numerous, smal], white, placed in large branched spikes. Calyx 
five toothed, erect, persistent, placed below the germen. Corolla 
of five petals, which are ovate, white, mostly erect. Filaments 
five, very short. Anthere small. Germen roundish, about the 
length of the corolla. Style scarcely visible. Stigmata three, 
somewhat cordate. Fruit a roundish one-celled red berry, con- 
taining a solitary round hard seed. 
This species of Sumach is a native of the South of Europe, and 
appears from the Catalogus horti Oxoniensis to have been cultivated 
in that garden previous to the year 1648, though it is still a scarce 
plant in this country. 
No. 48—vot. 4. 7 XN 
