LARGE LEAVED OR AMERICAN COTINUS. 3 
brown, and in preparing morocco leather. The leaves and 
branches also, in common with the bark of several species 
of Sumac, answer for tanning. The figure in plate 10 of 
the Atlas to Pallas’s Travels, very much resembles our 
plant, and is remarkable for the oblong form of its leaves. 
This variety grew on the steppes of Kouman, near the bor- 
ders of the Caspian. 
Plate LXXXI. 
A branch of the natural size in seed. a. The fruit. 
