Or TREES, SHRUBS, PLANT: 
i. Rhus typbinum, Stag’s Horn, Virginia Sumach. 
A final),deciduous tree, fifteen or eighteen feet high, 
with crooked, irregular branches and lhoots, covered 
with a velvetty down—the leaves (large, dark-green) 
pinnated or winged, of fix, feven, or more, pair of 
fpear-lhape lobes, lharply-fawed, and downy on the 
under-fide; and clofe tufty fpikes of flowers at the 
ends of the branches, fucceeded by large, woolly, pur¬ 
ple fpikes of feeds, remaining in autumn and winter.— 
Native of Virginia. {Any common/oil.) 
j. Rhus glahrum, Smooth or Scarlet Sumach. 
Afmall, deciduous tree, tenor twelve feet high, with 
irregular fpreading branches—theleaves (large) pin¬ 
nated, of many pair of fpcar-ihape fawed lobes; naked 
or fmooth on both fides; and large terminal paniculated 
fpikes of a deep-red or fcarletcolour.—Native of North 
America. ( Any common foil.) 
Variety. —Carolina Scarlet Sumach — with large 
compa& panicles of bright-red flower- 
fpikes. 
4. Rhus Ccpallinum — (Copallinum) or Lentifcus- 
leaved Sumach. 
A deciduous Ihrub, fix or eight feet high, with 
fpreading branches—the leaves ( middling ) pinnated, 
of four or five pair of narrow fpear-fhape intire lobes, 
with the foot-ftalks having membraneous borders, and 
jointed; and terminal loofe panicles of yellowilh flowers. 
—Native of North America. ( Any common foil.) 
5. Rhus Cotinus —(Cotinus) Venice Sumach, or 
Coccygria. 
A deciduous (hrub, ten or twelve, feet- high, with ir¬ 
regular fpreading branches — the leaves f middling, light - 
green) Ample, or of one lobe, obverfe-oval; and 
bunches of purple and white flowers at the ends of 
the branches.—Native of. Italy,. Spain, &c. (Any 
common foil.) 
Toxicodendrons, or Poifon Trees. 
6. Rhus Toxicodendron —(Toxicodendron) or Downy- 
leaved Poifon Tree; 
A deciduous (hrub of five or fix feet growth—the 
flem radicant or emitting roots; leaves ( large) ternate 
or trifoliate, of three ovalilh lobes, foot-ftalked, an- 
gulated, indented and downy; and Ihort fpikes of 
greenilh flowers.—Native of Virginia and . Canada; 
the wood poifonous. ( Any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Indented Downy -leaved Poifon Tree. 
>, FLOWERS, amd FRUITS. aoj 
Intire-leaved Downy Poifon Tree. 
Greater Rough Downy-leaved Poifon 
Tree. 
7. Rhus radicans —Radicant Smooth-leaved Poifon 
Tree. 
A deciduous (hrub, of trailing and upright growth, 
three or four, to five, fix, or eight feet—the item ra¬ 
dicant, or emitting roots; leaves (middling) trifoliate, 
of three ovate intire lobes, foot-llaik naked or fmoot-h „ 
and loofe panicles of greenilh flowers.—Native of 
Virginia and Canada. ( A?ty common foil.) 
Varieties. —Smaller trailing fmooth Poifon Tree. 
Larger twining-ftajked fmooth Poifon 
Tree. 
Upright fmooth Poifon Tree. 
8. Rhus Vernix —(Vernix) Varnifh Tree, or Polfoa 
A(h. 
A middling deciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high, or more—the leaves (large, dark-coloured) pin¬ 
nated, of three or four pair of oval-fpear-lhape intire 
lobes, with the foot-ftalks intire and equal; and pani¬ 
cles of greenilh flowers.—Native of North America 
and. Japan; fuppofed the true Varnilh Tree from which 
the Varniftiis obtained. {Any common foil, warmfiliation) 
9. Tb'u.vifuccedanum —Succedanous, or fpurious Var¬ 
nilh Tree. 
A moderate tree or Ihrub—the leaves ( middling , 
fining) pinnated, of three or four pair of intire lobes, 
perennial.—Native of Japan and China. {Any com¬ 
mon foil.) 
Thefe eight or nine fpecies of Rhus are cultivated 
principally for ornament and variety, in fhrubberies, 
and other decorative plantations, ir. plealure-grounds, 
in aflemblage with other ornamental Ihrubs and trees, 
in which they form a confpicuous variety in their pin¬ 
nated, and trifoliate, and Ample leaves, in iummer, 
when properly contrafted; and leveral of them alfo 
in their long paniculated fpikes of flowers; and in 
fome of the Sumach kinds, particularly, they diftin- 
guilh themfelves agreeably ai all feafons: their elegant 
pinnated foliage and large panicles in fummer and au¬ 
tumn, difplay an entertaining diverlity, and appear 
Angular in winter, in their large flag-horn-like, brown* 
velvetty (hoots, terminated by the continuing large, 
red panicles of downy feeds : likewife the Toxicoden¬ 
drons ferve to cncreafe the variety in an agreeablc.man- 
ner, in their different growths, foliage, and flowers; 
though the latter being (mall and greenilh, arenotcon- 
Ipicuoufly ornamental. » 
