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cep ting that fpecimen of Kcempfer’s now in the Bri- 
tifh Mufeum. 
But, to confirm what I have before faid, of Dr. 
Sherard’s having a fpecimen of the true varnifh-tree, 
I beg leave to quote what Dr. Dillenius has written 
in the Hortus Elthamenfis where, after having de- 
ferred the American Toxicodendron, he fays, Ce- 
terum hijloriam verm c if era arboris Japonia , dili- 
genter et accurate more fuo exfequutus efi laudatus 
Kcempferius y cujus et deferiptio et figura , quin et 
plant a fee a , qua in Japonia left a fervatur in phyto - 
phylacio Sberardino , noflra huic fpeciei examujjim 
quadrat : id tantum> J'exus nempe differentia , pra- 
te rvi fa fuit autdori : quoniam autem ille liber non in 
omnium his in locis , multo minus in America , mani - 
bus verfatur , non alienum v idetur , fi qui , quorum 
intereft, hac legerint , ut norint, qua ille de collec- 
tion & preparatione vernicis illius habet , hoc loco 
tranferibere. Then he goes on tranferibing from 
Koempfer the manner, in which it is collected. 
After this, I find Mr. Ellis is inclinable to think, 
that the poifon-afh, as it is called by the gardeners, 
is the fame with the fafi-no-ki y or fpurious varnifh- 
tree of Koempfer. The difference between thefe 
fhrubs does not confift in fmall and minute particu- 
lars, but the moft obvious flunking marks of diftinc- 
tion appear at firft fight ; for the poifon-afh has rare- 
ly more than three or four pair of lobes to each leaf, 
terminated by an odd one : in which particular it 
agrees with the true varnifh-tree of Koempfer ; 
whereas in the figure, which Koempfer has given of 
the fpurious varnifh-tree, the leaves have feven or 
eight pair of lobes terminated by an odd one : and 
this 
