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fie Species with m> are , 
1 . Rh us Copallinum. Lentifcus-leaved Sumach . 
This grows to the height of fix, eight, or fome- 
times ten feet, dividing into {lender branches, and 
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 expanfi- 
ons between each pair of lobes. The flowers are 
produced in loofe, compound panicles, of, an her- 
baceous colour, and are fucceeded by reddifh feeds, 
fprinkled with a greyifh pounce. This grows natu- 
rally in a flaty, gravelly foil. The berries are very 
acid. There are fome varieties of this, much re- 
fembling it but of fmalier growth, and with redder 
berries. 
2. Rhus glabrum. Smooth Pennfylvanian 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 their upper fides, but much lighter underneath 
and changing reddifh in autumn. The flowers are 
hermaphrodite and female on feparate plants, and 
are produced in large, ere£f, compounded panicles, 
or thyrfi, terminating the branches; of an herbace- 
ous colour; the hermaphrodite of which are largefl: 
and barren, but the female are fucceeded by feeds 
with a red meally covering, of an acid tafte. 
Rhus 
