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sively for it sometimes. The poisonous group, for which the 

 name Toxicodendron has been used, but to which the name 

 Rhus is most strictly applicable, is equally distinct in leaf- 

 scars from the true sumachs, to which the name Schmaltzia 

 is extended. Opinions differ as greatly in the definition of 

 their species as in the limitation of these nominal genera; 

 and Greene, in the eighth volume of Proceedings of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences, has made no fewer than 29 spe- 

 cies of what is here called R. glabra. 



1. Leaf-scars round, much elevated, covering the small yellow 



hairy buds: twigs slender. 



(Fragrant sumach). (1). R. canadensis. 

 Leaf -scars C-shaped, nearly encircling the buds: twigs 



stout. 2. 

 Leaf-scars U-shaped: twigs terete, puberulent. 



(2). R. copallina. 

 Leaf-scars broadly crescent- or shield-shaped. Poisonous. 5. 



2. Tall shrubs or small trees. 3. 

 Very low hairy shrub. 



(Southern hairy sumach). R. Michauxii. 



3. Twigs glabrous, 3-sided. (Smooth sumach). (3). R. glabra. 

 Twigs hairy, rounded. 4. 



4. Hairs dense, concealing the lenticels. 



(Staghorn sumach). R. typhina. 

 Hair's scanty: lenticels prominent. 



(Asiatic sumach). R. javanica. 



5. Twigs slender: buds stalked, naked. 6. 

 Twigs stout: buds sessile. 7. 



6. Climbing by aerial roots, or spreading. 



(Poison ivy). (4). R. radicans. 

 Bushy. (Poison oak). R. Toxicodendron. 



7. End-buds yellow-pubescent, large (8-10 mm. long). 



(5). R. vernicifera. 

 End-buds glabrate, moderate (scarcely 5 mm.). 



(6). R. vernix. 



