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here, It is ftill but a fhrub, in comparifon with the 
other. 
F urther, while Dr. Dillenius was w&rm with this 
fuppofed difeovery, of our having got the true Japan 
varnifh-tree in America, attempts were made there, 
by intelligent perfons under his direction, to procure 
this varnifh after the manner of Kcempfer ; but 
without fuccefs, as I am allured by perfons of that 
country now here, with whom the Dodlor corref- 
now confult the growth of the Carolina 
and Virginia Sumachs, or Rhus’s, in our nurfery- 
gardens, and compare them with this little fhrubby 
Toxicodendron, and we fhall find, that even in this 
cold climate nature keeps her regular proportionable 
pace in the growth of vegetables of the fame coun- 
try. 
Let us obferve the growth of fome of thefe 
Rhus’s, and we fhall find that great luxuriancy of 
the fhoots, which Koempfer fo juftly deferibes in his 
varnifh-tree. One of thefe American ones even feems 
to promife the fame height as the Japan Rhus ; 
whereas this little fhrubby Toxicodendron ftill pre- 
ferves the fame dwarfifh flow-growing habit, that it 
has in its native country. 
This leads me, in the next place, to fliew, that 
thefe two plants muft be of different genus’s ; the 
one a Rhus, and the other a Toxicodendron : and 
if fo, according to Mr. Miller, they ought to be 
properly diftinguifhed, and not ranked together, as 
Dr. Linnaeus has done. 
In order to prove this, let us then examine Kcemp- 
fer’s defeription of the parts of the flower, and fee 
L 1 1 2 whether 
ponded. 
Let i 
