250 CHAPTER 46. 
Abbe's difcovery as having been long before 
anticipated by K^mpfer ; and adduces 
many reafons to prove, that the Sitzdfiu^ 
or Arbor vernicifera legithnUy p. 791, fig. 
792, of that author, or the Varnifli Tree 
of yapan^ is no other than the firft of thefe 
fpecies, of which the ftaining quaHty is re- 
corded by K^MPFER. This pofition drew 
Mr, Miller into a controverfy with Mr, 
Ellis, who ftrongly infilled, that ihcAmen'^ 
can and Japanefe Toxicodendra were different 
plants. Mr. Miller defends his opinion 
in the Remarks." It is fufficient at this 
time to obferve, that fubfequent botanifts 
of the firft note, fuch as Lin^nus, Rei-. 
CHARD, and Thunberg, have counte- 
nanced Miller's opinion, by placing them 
under the fame fpecific diftinftion with the 
Rhus 'vernix 
• TheMiLLERiA was a new genus, difcovered iLtPa» 
r.ama and Vera Cruz by Houston. It belongs to the 
Syngenefious clafs, and was dedicated to Miller by Dr, 
Martyn, in his Decades Plantar 14771 p<:iricru^* 
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