VI. A farther Account of the fame Ine „ *By 
William Sherard, LL, T>, 2^. S, 8, 
HE Account I had of the Poyfon-Tree from 
Mr. More (which probably he had from Mr. 
Dudley') is as follows. 
The Poyfon-Tree grows to the bignefs of Elder j 
I never faw the Leaf j the Wood is as cold as Ice j 
when laid on the Fire, of 5 or 6 Perfons fitting by it, 
fome will fall a fwooning, fainting, or yawning, 
continuing fo for fome Days, others but a few Hours, 
gud others of the Company not at all. I handle, 
cut and burn it with impunity *, and fo it is with 
feveral others, I fuppofe, according to their feveral 
Conftitutions. It was never known to kill any body, 
but only to do hurt to fome Perfons. I have fent 
you all the Seeds of it, I can get. 
The Seeds he fent were but few, but I had a good 
quantity from Mr. Catesby in Carolina. He calls it a 
Water Shrub, of which he never faw Leaf or Flower. 
Tis a fpecies of Toxicodendron , tho’ not nam’d by 
Dr .Tournefort in his Inftitutions, p. 610. but I be- 
lieve it to be Arbor Americana alatis foliis , fucco 
lacleo venenata, Pluknet. Alniag, 45. Tab. i 45 - I'ig* *• 
which is a Species of Toxicodendron, r that grew for- 
merly at Chelfea Garden, What makes me think it 
to be this, is Mr. Dudley's writing ’tis like a Sumach , 
and that it is by fome call’d the Swa?np Sumach *, this in 
its manner of growing and alated Leaves, very 
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