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Rhododendrum maximum. Pennfylvanian 

 Mountain Laurel. 



This grows to the height of about fix or eight 

 feet, often with feveral ftems from the fame root. 

 The leaves are oblong and entire, generally about 

 four or five inches in length and one and a half or 

 near two in breadth : of a thick confiftence, and 

 (hining dark green on the upper fide but lighter un- 

 derneath, cotitinuing their verdure all the year* 

 The flowers are pretty large and of a pale rofe co- 

 lour, ftudded with fpots of a deeper red, having 

 their tubes a little bent. They are produced at the 

 extremity of the former year's flioots, in roundifli 

 clufters, making a beautiful appearance. This is 

 much and defervedly efteemed as a very beautiful, 

 evergreen, flowering fhrub. 



RHUS. 



SUMACH. 

 Clafs 5. Order 3. Pentandria Trigynia, 



THE Empalement is five-parted, beneath, erefl, and perma- 

 nent. 



The Corolla of five petals, ovate and a little fpreading. 



The Filaments are five, very lliort. The Jntherce fmall, iTioft- 



er than the corolla. 

 The Germe?} above, roundifh, and the iTze of the coroUa. The 



Styles fcarce any. The Stigmas three, hearted, rmall. 

 The Seed-veJJsl a berry, roundilli, and of one cell. 

 The Seed one, roundilli, bony. 



OhJ, The Toxicodendron has fmooth, ftriated berries ; the 

 kern.el comprefled and furrowed. 



1 he Vernix is male and female upon different plants. 



The Glabrum (and perhaps fome others) is female and her- 

 maphrodite on different plants. 



The 



