ADDISONIA 73 
(Plate 37) 
RHUS HIRTA DISSECTA 
Fern-leaved Staghorn Sumac 
Native of Massachusetts 
Family ANACARDIACEAE Sumac Family 
Rhus typhina laciniata Manning; Rehder, Deuts. Gartn.-Zeit. 15: 211. 1900, 
Not Rhus typhina laciniata A. Wood, 1847. 
Rhus hirta laciniata C. K. Schneid. Ill. Handb. Laubh. 2: 154. 1907. 
Rhus typhina forma dissecta Rehder, Rhodora 9; 115. 1907. 
Rhus typhina filicina Sprenger, Mitt. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 16: 67. 1908. 
Rhus hirta dissecta Nash. 
Commonly a much-branched broad shrub, with the young 
branches covered with a pink velvety pubescence, and with the 
an inch, with the pointed calyx-lobes hairy. staminate 
flowers the pe reflexed, in the pistillate ones erect or slightly 
spreading. The fruit clusters, of many sm iry fruits, are of a 
The illustration is prepared from a plant in the fruticetum of 
the New York Botanical Garden, obtained in 1904 from the n 
of Hicks & Son. In Rhus hirta the leaflets are lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate and are merely sharply toothed; this variety differs 
mainly in the leaflets, which are again divided into separate lobes. 
This is the plant described as Rhus typhina var. laciniata in 
Bailey’s Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, and the one offered 
for sale under that namein nursery catalogues. It was discovered 
about twenty-five years ago in Massachusetts (the exact locality 
not recorded), by J. W. Manning, of Reading, in that state. The 
R. typhina var. laciniata described by Wood (Class-Book ed. 2. 203. 
1847) nearly seventy years ago differs in having the leaflets merely 
pinnatifidly lobed, much in the manner of the terminal portions of 
