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has added all the fynonyms from the different authors, 
who have mentioned the plant, and makes no doubt 
of its being the fame with that of Japan, which, he 
fays, fhould not feem flrange, that a varnilh-tree 
fnould be found in America, near the fame latitude 
with Japan ; fince the Genfeng, the Bignonia, com- 
monly called Catalpa, with many other plants, are 
found to be natives of both thefe countries. And 
he queftions, if the Tea-tree might not be difcovered 
in America, if perfons of fkill were there to fearch 
for it. And he is furprifed, that the inhabitants of 
the Englifh colonies in America have not attempted 
to procure the varnifh, whereby a confiderable pro- 
fit may arife to them, as the plant grows naturally in 
fo great plenty there. 
Mr. Catefby, in his Natural Hijlory of Carolina, 
vol. I. p. 40. has given a very good figure and de- 
fcription of this plant : he calls it foxicodetidronfoliis 
alatis^ friiSlu purpiireo pyriformi fparfo. And, he 
fays, the inhabitants of Carolina and the Bahama 
iflands call it, Poifon-tree, and Poifon-afli, as the 
other two forts of Toxicodendron are called Poifon- 
oak in Virginia and New England. Mr. Catefby 
takes notice, that from the trunk of thefe trees is 
diftilled a liquid, black as ink, which the inhabitants 
fay is poifon j but does not mention its being ufed 
there. 
There are two accounts of the poifonous quality 
of this tree, which are printed in the Philofophical 
Tranfa(ftions of the Royal Society, Numb. 367. 
The firfi: was fent by the Honourable Paul Dudley, 
F. R. S. from New England, and the other was com- 
municated 
