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Rhus (;laiika L. 



This docs not scciii to be classed as a tree in any of the books. 

 In December, 1903, I fretiuently found specimens o\cr three 

 inches in diameter and twenty feet tall <^rouin^ on the Cambrian 

 shales along the Oostanaula 

 and other streams in Gordon 

 County, and on Januar}' 5, 

 1904, I fountl on the same 

 formation, in a cane-brake 

 on the bank of the Coosa 

 River, in Floyd County, 

 about twelve miles below 

 Rome, veritable little grove 

 of this species, in which 

 many of the specimens were 

 as much as seven inches in 

 diameter and thirty feet tall, 

 with the lowest branches 

 higher up than I could reach. 

 These trees seemed perfectly 

 sound and healthy, and I cut 

 a log from one of them which 

 astonished even the natives 

 who saw me wrapping it up 

 for shipment. 



This species is readily distinguished from R. copalliiia in winter 

 by several characters which are rarely if ever mentioned in 

 descriptions. These characters may be contrasted as follows : 



A', ghxbra \ R. copallina 



Heart-wood deep \-ellow, Heart-wood pale greenish-}-el- 

 sharply distinguished from low, not sharpl\- distinguished 



the narrow white sap-wood. from the sap-wood. 



Fruiting panicles erect. Fruiting panicles drooping. 



Drupes bright scarlet. I Drupes dull dark-red. 



There are also some differences in the bark, almost impossible 

 to describe. 



Fic. I. Trunk of Rhus copallinn, II 

 inches in diameter. Early County, Febru- 

 ary, 1904. 



