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PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



red, acid to the taste, and in a dense, close, upright, terminal 

 panicle. A common, low shrub, but sometimes a tree twenty- 

 feet high, with orange-colored, brittle wood. Often a great nui- 

 sance, appearing in neglected fields, and throwing up suckers ' 

 from the large, coarse, subterraneous stems. 



R. glabra. Linn. — Smooth Sumach. — Branches and leaves 

 smooth, not downy. Leaflets eleven to thirty-one, whitish un- 

 derneath, lanceolate-oblong, pointed and serrate. Fruit red, but 

 in an open and spreading cluster. A small or large shrub, some- 

 times ten or twelve feet high, and common in rocky soils. Var. 

 laciniata, or the Cut-leaved sumach of gardens, belongs to this 

 species, and was found in Pennsj'lvania by the late Dr. Dar- 

 lington, nearly a half century ago. 



R. copallina, Linn. — Dwarf Sumach. — ^Young stalks and 

 branches downy, petioles winged or broadly margined between 

 the nine to twenty-one, oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaflets, 

 mostly entire, smooth above and downy beneath. Fruit red, A 

 low shrub, four to eight feet high, on the borders of woods, in 

 both Northern and Southern States. 



R. aromatica. Ait. — Fragrant Sumach. — Leaves composed of 

 three cut-lobed leaflets, of a rhombic-ovate form, downy when 

 young, aromatic-scented. Flowers light yellow, and appear in 

 spring, before the leaves. Fruit red, in short spikes. Var. trilo- 

 bata, Gray, or E, irilobata, Nutt., is found from Texas to 

 Washington Territory. Fruit pleasant tasted, and eaten by the 

 Indians, The small, slender twigs, are also employed for 

 making very choice baskets. 



R. pnmila, Michx. — Dwarf Sumach. — A low growing shrub, 

 with eleven to thirteen oval, oblong, pointed leaflets, coarsely 

 serrate, and downy beneath. Fruit red and hairy. In Georgia 

 and North Carolina. 



R. integrifolia, Benth. and Hook. — Entire-leaved Sumach. — 

 Leaves evergreen, pubescent when young, but soon smooth ; 

 broadly ovate, usually entire, but sometimes spiny-toothed ; 

 one to three inches long. Flowers rose-colored, in close pani- 

 cles, one to three inches long. Fruit dark-red, viscid, ovate, 

 nearly a half inch long. Nuttall, in describing this species, 

 under the name of Styphonia integrifoUa, says that it is an un- 

 sightly tree, with a stem about the thickness of a man's arm, 

 branching in a wide and straggling manner, forming impervi- 

 ous thickets along the margins of cliffs and steep banks near 



