. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Staghorn Sumac 607 3. SOUTHERN SUMAC —Rhus leucantha Jacquin This little-known tree or shrub was well described and illustrated by Jacquin in 1798, but this author did not know where it grew naturally, his description and figure having been drawn from plants grown under glass in the garden at Schoen- brunn, Vienna. It is now known to inhabit extreme southern Florida and Cat island near the mouth of the Mississippi River,
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Staghorn Sumac 607 3. SOUTHERN SUMAC —Rhus leucantha Jacquin This little-known tree or shrub was well described and illustrated by Jacquin in 1798, but this author did not know where it grew naturally, his description and figure having been drawn from plants grown under glass in the garden at Schoen- brunn, Vienna. It is now known to inhabit extreme southern Florida and Cat island near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and prob- ably occurs at intermediate points. There is a similar tree or shrub in the province of Piaar del Rio, Cuba, but the specimen of this plant that we have seen does not enable us to decide whether it represents the same species or not. In the region south of Miami, Florida, it is a tree reaching a ' S^ M ? height of about 8 meters, with a trunk about i dm. thick. The bark of the Florida tree ^ „ „ • ^u- u • J , J Fig. SS7-— Southern Sumac. IS thm, bnght red, smooth and shining. The young shoots are finely hairy. The axis of the leaves is winged between the leaflets as in the Dwarf sumac and the Texan sumac; there are 17 to 31 leaflets, which are short-stalked or stalkless, lanceolate, unequal-sided, but not scythe-shaped, 5 to 9 cm. long, long-pointed, narrowed at the base, dark green, dull and smooth on the upper surface when mature, finely hairy on the under side. The flowers are described as white. The fruit is similar to that of Rhus copallina and similarly covered with red hairs. 4. STAGHORN SUMAC — Rhus hirta (Linnaeus) Sudworth Datisca hirta Linnaeus. Rhus typhina Linnaeus. Schmaltzia hirta Small Usually a large shrub, the Staghorn sumac or Hairy sumac sometimes becomes a tree up to 13 meters high, with a trunk 3 to 4 dm. in thickness. It prefers dry soil, commonly growing on hillsides, though sometimes near the borders of swamps, and occurs
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