XXXIV. THE STAG’S HORN SUMACH. 501 
and are suitable to be left in the corners of fields and along 
avenues. They are easily propagated by seed, and some of 
them by cuttings of the branches. All the species are easily 
propagated by cuttings of the roots. 
Sp. 1. Tse Srae’s Horn Sumacu. BR. typhina. L. 
This is a tall shrub, often becoming a small tree, sometimes 
of the height of twenty-five feet, with a diameter of four or 
five inches, with irregular, crooked branches. In July and 
August, the heads of fruit assume a rich scarlet or crimson 
color, afterwards turning purple, and remain conspicuous and 
beautiful into the winter, while, in autumn, the leaves begin 
early to turn, and become of a red color with various shades of 
yellow, orange and purple. The ends of the branches, from 
their irregularity and the abundant down with which they are 
covered, resemble the young horns of a stag, whence the name. 
The flowers are yellowish-green, in a broad, tapering, branch- 
ed panicle, five to twelve inches long, the common and partial 
stalks, like the leaf-stalks, clothed with a coarse, downy hair. 
Calyx short, hairy, the segments pointed, erect. Petals thrice 
as long, greenish-yellow, somewhat contracted at base, ovate, 
rounded, concave, hairy within, reflected, except at the tip. 
Stamens 5, short, erect, rising from the edge of a broad, orange 
or scarlet disk; anthers large, opening inwards, from top to 
bottom. Pollen orange. Stigmas 3, on green styles, from the 
centre of the disk. 
On the fertile plants, the stamens are usually wanting or very 
minute, and 3 short, purple stigmas crown a velvety germ, 
clothed abundantly with crimson hairs. The pinnate leaflets 
are sessile, narrow, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, and terminate in 
a long point. 
The wood is of a yellowish or greenish-yellow color, brittle, 
but of a soft, satiny texture and close-grained. The pith, which 
is abundant, 1s of a yellowish color. 
The leaves and bark are astringent and used in tanning, and 
the root has been found efficacious in fevers. The juice Is 
milky and abundant, very adhesive, and turning black on ex- 
posure to the air. 
