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subglobular, of 1 cell. Styles 3, short, or wanting. Stigmas 3. Fruit an 

 almost dry drupe of 1 cell, with a bony nut, which includes a single seed ; 

 and, in some instances, 2 3 seeds. (Dec. Prod.) Deciduous shrubs. Na- 

 tives of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. 



Leaves simple or unequally pinnate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes, or panicles. The leaves vary much, both in 

 form and magnitude ; and they generally die off, in autumn, of a dark red, 

 or a bright scarlet, or yellow, when they are very ornamental. Most of the 

 species are poisonous, some highly so; and they all may be used in tanning, 

 and dyeing yellow or black. They are all easily propagated by cuttings of 

 the root, and some of them by cuttings of the branches. 



Some of the hardy species are rambling climbers, and others tree-like 

 bushes. 



L Cotinus Tourn. 

 Sect. Char. Leaves undivided. Flowers hermaphrodite. 



& 1. R. CO'TINUS L. The Cotinus Rhus, or Venetian Sumach. 



Identification. Lin. Spec., 383. ; Dec. Prod , 2. p. 67. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 69. 



Synonymes. Cotinus Cogg^gria Scop. Carn.ed. 2. No. 368.. Mcench Meth.73.; Cotinus coriacea 



Duh. Arb. l.t. 78.; Venus Sumach, Venice Sumach, wild Olive; Sumach Fustet, or Arbre aux 



Peruques, Fr. ; Periicken Sumach, Ger. ; Scotano, Hal. 

 Derivation. The term Cdtinus is derived from cotinos, a name under which Plinv speaks of a tree 



with red wood, which is supposed to grow in the Apennines. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Aust., t. 210. ; and our fig. 281. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate. (Dec. Prod.) A de- 

 ciduous rambling shrub. Spain to Caucasus ; and, accord- 

 ing to Torrey and Gray, probably of North America. 

 Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. wild ; 6 ft. to 8 ft. in a state of cul- 

 ture. Introduced in 1656. Flowers pale purplish, or 

 flesh colour ; June and July. Fruit white; ripe in Sep- 

 tember. Decaying leaves of a fine reddish yellow. Naked 

 young wood smooth brown. 



The flowers are disposed in loose panicles, and are her- 

 maphrodite. The drupe is half-heart-shaped, smooth, and 

 veiny ; and its nut is triangular. Many of the flowers are 

 abortive ; and their pedicels, after flowering, lengthen, and 

 become hairy. A highly ornamental shrub, more especially 

 when covered with its large loose panicles of elongated hairy 

 pedicels. It is easily known from all the other species by 

 its simple, obovate, smooth, stiff, lucid green leaves, rounded 

 at the points, and supported by long footstalks, which remain 

 on till they are killed by frost, so that the plant is almost a 

 sub-evergreen. A dry loam suits it best ; and it is propa- 

 gated by pegging down the branches flat to the ground, and 

 strewing earth over them, through which young shoots rise up, which root at 

 the base, and may be removed in autumn. 



{ ii. Sumach Dec. 



Sect. Char. Leaves impari-pinnate ; leaflets more than 3 in the leaves of each 

 of the first 6 species of this section. Flowers in panicles, polygamous, 

 dioecious, or hermaphrodite. 



3fe 5t 2. R. TYPHI^SA L. The Fever Rhus, or Stag's Horn Sumach. 



Lin. Spec., 380. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 67. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 70. ; Tor. and Gray, 



_ Virginian Sumach. 

 ngravings. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaf of 8 10 pairs of leaflets, and the odd one, that are 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, hairy beneath. Petiole and branches hairy. 



Identification. 

 1. p. 217. 



'ymes. R. virginiatia Bauh. Pin. p. 517. , *uuu .j^ma^n. 



N. Du H., 2. t. 47. ; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 17. and t. 18. ; and our fig. 282., the male. 



