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Rhus glabrum carolinenfe. Carolinian Scarlet-flower^ 

 ing Sumach. 



This is a variety of the laft defcribed, but diflfer- 

 ing in having fcarlet flowers. 



Rhus glabrum canadenfe. Canadian Redflozvering 

 Sumach. 



This is alfo a variety of the fanie, growing natu- 

 rally in Canada, with red flowers. 



3. Rhus typhinuni. Stags-horn Sumach, 



This grows naturally in Virginia and Pennfylva- 

 nia, often rifing to the height of twelve or fifteen 

 feet, with a trunk of fix or eight inches in diame- 

 ter; dividing at the top into feveral branches; which, 

 when young, are covered with a foft, velvet-like 

 down, refembling that of a young flag's horn, both 

 in colour and texture. The leaves are compofed of 

 lix or feven pair of oblong lobes, terminated by an 

 odd one, ending in acute points, and together with 

 the midrib, a little hairy unvierneath. The flowers 

 are produced in a clofe, eredl panicle or thyrfus, 

 terminating the brarches; they are of an herbace* 

 ous colour and are fucceeded by feeds enclofed in a 

 purple, woolly, fucculent covering; making a fine 

 appearance in the autumn, 



4. Rhus canadenfe. Canadian trifoliate Su^ 

 mach. 



This grows naturally in Canada, and perhaps the 

 northern parts of Pennfylvania. The fl:ems are flen- 

 der, rifing to the height of fix or eight feet, and 

 egvered with a brown bark. The leaves are com- 



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