Rhododendrum maximum. Pennfylvanian 
Mountain Laurel. 
This grows to the height of about fix or eight 
feet, often with feveral items 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 
fiiining dark green on the upper fide but lighter un- 
derneath, continuing 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 roundifii 
clufters, making a beautiful appearance. This is 
much and defervedly efieemed as a very beautiful, 
evergreen, flowering fiirub. 
RHUS. 
SUMACH. 
Clafs 5. Order 3. Pentandria Trigynia. 
T HE Empalement 1 is five-parted, beneath, ereft, and perma- 
nent. 
The Corolla of five petals, ovate and a little fpreading. 
The Filaments are five, very fhort. The Anthera fmall, Ihort- 
er than the corolla. 
The Germen above, roundiiTi, and the fize of the corolla. The 
Styles fcarce any. The Stigmas three, hearted, fmall. 
The Seed-veJJel a berry, roundiih, and of one cell. 
The Seed one, roundifh, bony. 
Obf. The Toxicodendron has fmooth, ftriated berries : the 
kernel comprefTed and furrowed. 
The Vernix is male and female upon different plants. 
The Glabrum (and perhaps fome others) is female and her- 
maphrodite on different plants. 
The 
