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be handled with caution, as it is very poifonous to 
many people. 
2. Rhus-Toxicodendron toxicodendrum , 
Poifon-Oak . 
This has a low, ihrubby (talk, feldom rifing above 
three or four feet. The leaves are trifoliate, with 
pretty long footftalks, the lobes are entire, fmooth 
and fomewhat heart-fhaped. The flowers come out 
from the fides of the ftalks, in loofe panicles of an 
herbaceous colour; fmall, and not always herma- 
phrodite. They are fucceeded by roundifh, chan- 
nelled, fmooth berries, of a yellowifli grey colour 
when ripe. 
3. Rhus-Toxicodendron radicans. 
Poifon - 
Vine. 
This rifes with many lhrubby diming Items, at- 
taching themfelves to* every neighbouring fupport; 
and often rifing to the height of twenty or thirty 
feet, with a item of two or three inches in diameter; 
fending oflf many branches. The leaves are trifoli- 
ate, and have pretty long footftalks : the lobes are 
fomewhat oval and pointed, often fomewhat toothed. 
The flowers are produced in fhort panicles from the 
fides of the branches, and are fucceeded by round® 
ifh berries, of a brownilh colour when ripe. 
R I B E S. 
The CURRANT-BUSH. 
Clafs 5. Order 1. Pentandria Monogynia. 
'T-’HE Empalement is of one leaf, part five-deft and bellied* 
T the divifions oblong, concave, coloured, reflexed and 
permanent. The 
