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T^e Species with us^ are^ 



1. Rhus Copallinum. Lentifcus-kaved Sumachs 



This grows to the height of fix, eight, or fome- 

 times ten feet, dividing into flender branches, ajid 

 covered with fpeckled bark. The leaves are wing- 

 ed, and compofed of four or five pair of narrow, 

 entire lobes, terminated by an odd one; joined to a 

 common footftalk; with decurrent, leaffy cxpanfi- 

 ons bctv/een each pair of lobes. The flowers arc 

 produced in loofe, .compound panicles, of an her- 

 baceous colour, and are fucceeded by reddifh feeds, 

 fprinkled with a greyifli pounce. This grows natu- 

 rally in a flaty, gravelly foil. The berries are very 

 acid. Tiiere are fome varieties of this, much re- 

 fembling it but of fmaller growth, and with redder 

 berries. 



2. Rhus glabrnm. Smooth Pennfyhanian Su-- 



mach. 



This grows naturally in feveral of the northern 

 States, rifing to the height of fix or eight feet, di- 

 viding in a few thick, pithy and fomewhat angled 

 branches; covered with a fmooth bark. The leaves 

 are large and winged, compofed of eight, nine, or 

 ten pair of lobes, and an odd one; oblong, point- 

 ed and fawed on their edges ; of a pretty deep green 

 on thc^ir upper fides, but much lighter underneath 

 and changing reddifh in autumn. The flowers are 

 henBaphrodite and female on feparate plants, and 

 are produced in large, erecl, compounded panicles, 

 or thyrfi, terminating the branches; of an herbace- 

 ous colour; the herQiaphrodite of which are largefl: 

 and barren, but the female .are fucceeded by feeds 

 with a red meally covering, of an acid tafte. 



Rhus 



