G27) CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 91 
panicles hanging on late in winter; the 
stone striate. This is a very poisonous 
species (to the touch), 6 to 18 ft. high, 
growing in swamps. Rarely at all tree- 
like. 
5. Rhas Osbéckii, DC. (CHINESE Su- 
MAC.) Leaves very large, pinnate, assum- 
ing in autumn a rich reddish-fawn or 
orange color; the leafstalk broadly winged 
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between the leaflets; leaflets serrate. A 4 
small ornamental tree, 10 to 25 ft. high; ‘ 
cultivated; from China; quite hardy in 
the Northern States. R. venendta, 
6. Rhis Cétinus, L. (SMOKE-TREE. 
VENETIAN Sumac.) Leaves smooth, obo- 
vate, entire, on slender petioles. Flowers 
greenish, minute, 
S in terminal or 
axillary pani- 
eles. Fruit sel- 
dom found. Usu- 
ally most of the 
flowers are abor- 
tive, while their 
pedicels lengthen, 
branch, and form long feather-like hairs, 
making large cloud-like branches that 
look somewhat like smoke (whence the 
name). A shrub or small tree, 6 to 10 
ft. high, often planted for ornament ; 
from Europe. 
R, Cétinus. 
R. Osbéckii. 
7. Rhis cotinoides, Nutt. (AMERI- 
CAN SMOKE-TREE.) Leaves thin, oval, 
obtuse, entire, acute at base, 3 to 6 in. 
long, smooth or nearly so. Flowers and 
fruit like those of the cultivated species 
(Rhus Cotinus). A tree 20 to 40 ft. high; 
stem sometimes a foot or more in diame- 
ter in the Southern States; wild in Ten- 
nessce, west and south. Rare in eulti- 
vation. R. cotinoides. 
