CASHEW FAMILY. Wes 
branches stout and thick, with a large pith, somewhat angular or compressed. Leaves 
composed of 8~12 or 15 pairs of lea (2 Le > as inches i in length); common = 
inches long, ere ark purple, Flowers yellowish-green ; the ~ ler 
and more th il ries clothed with a short ish aity p fi- 
fencaties, which & m the phon becomes bright nin and contains a sprightly aeid. 
a 1 fields, Snes toed: and thickets: Canada to Louisiana, Fl. June. Fr. September 
ts prevalence, in arable has is strong evidence of the occu 
_ Obs This shrub is apt to be abundant in neglected sterile old fields ; 
occupant 
béing a poor thriftless farme 
4. R. venena’ C. Branches and petioles smooth ; eaflets in 
few pairs, very entire ; common petioles not winged ; fruit t glabrous. 
Potsonous Ruus. Poison Sumach. Poison Elder. Swamp Dogwood. 
esinous. Stem Ba 2 or 16 sons high, branching above, young branches rather | 
slender ete, smoothis pone owe ucose or dotted. Leaves composed of 3-5 or 6 — | 
pairs of — cd -S3or4 pd mg) ; Y. coamanisigieldiine' ~10 or 12 inches long. Flowers 
greenish. slender , racemose, on long axillary gg Drupes dry, smooth 
and shining, termed twice ag large as in either of wer whe 
Low grounds along swampy riv' sete Canada to stoma Fil. June. Fr. sarap 
Fic. 59. Pots a, Cae eae c + ee eakGw is tno 
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