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of his true Varnifh-tree, on the fame paper with the 
other (5). 
Dr. Dillenius, late profeffor of botany at Oxford, 
has omitted thefe neceffary characters in his de~ 
fcription of the true Japan Varnifh-tree from Dr. 
Kasmpfer in his Hortus Elthamenfis, where he gives 
it as a fynonym for this American pinnated Toxico- 
dendron : whereas had he been exaCt in the defcrip- 
tion given it by his author, he muft evidently have 
made it another fpecies. This has milled the accurate 
Linnaeus, who quotes Dillenius’s Synonyms' for 
Kaempfer’s Arbor Vernicifera, or Sitz-dsju. 
As another fynonym, and in proof of our Poifon 
afh or winged-leaf Toxicodendron being the true Ja- 
pan Varnifh-tree, Mr. Miller fays in his letter, that 
Mr. Catefby has given a very good figure of it, in his 
Natural Hiftory of Carolina, Vol. i. page 40. where 
he calls it (6) Toxicodendron foliis alatis, fruChi 
purpureo pyriformi fparfo j but as the bare infpeCtion 
into Catefby’s figure of this tree will convince the cu- 
rious enquirer, whether botanift or no, that it cannot 
be the Poifon afh, known to the gardeners, I fhall 
only mention, befides its having a pear-fhap’d fruit, 
that I am perfuaded, as are many other perfons 
/killed in thefe things, that Mr. Catefby never faw 
the bloffom of t’his tree fo as to determine abfolutely 
the genus of it, or he would certainly have given it 
to us : and that he does not once fay, that the inha- 
bitants of Carolina call it the Poifon tree, or even that 
it grows among them. I have (Fig. 3. Tab. 24.) given 
(5) See Fig. 2 . Tab. 24.. (6) See Fig. 3. Tab, 24. 
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