COTINUS, or VENITIAN SUMACH. 
Natural Order , Anacardiacea:, (R. Brown.) Linnccan 
Classification , Pentandria Trigynia. 
COTINUS, (Tourn.) Rhus, (Linn.) ^Tajvicajc 
'Flowers similar to those of Rhus, but hermaphrodite, and a great part of 
them abortive, the barren pedicels at length elongated and clothed with 
articulated hairs. Fruit a dry, cartilaginous, oblique drupe, without 
any pulp, 1 -celled. Seed solitary. 
Small trees with alternate, simple, ovate or roundish, entire leaves ; the 
flowers in loose, diffuse, slender, terminal panicles. 
LARGE LEAVED or AMERICAN COTINUS. 
COTINUS americanus, foliis rhomboideo-ovatis subtus ad nervos pubes - 
centibus , panicula parva laxa. 
Rhus Cotinoides , Nutt. MSS. in Herb. Acad. Philad. 
Rhus Cotinus ? Torrey and Gray, Flora N. Amer. 1 , p. 216. 
In the autumn of 1819, during a tour made into the 
interior of the Arkansas Territory, I discovered this inter- 
esting species of Cotinus, on the high, broken, calcareous 
rocky banks of the Grand River, a large tributary of the 
Arkansas, at a place then known to voyagers by the name 
of the “ Eagle’s nest.” In this rocky situation, it did not 
Von. hi. — 1 
