. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Rhus venenata, THE POISONOUS RHUS. Synonymes, Rhus venenata, Ehus vernix, Sumac veneneux, Girtiger Su'nach, Albero del veleno, Siiinticli, Swamp Sumach, Poison Elder, Poison-wood, ' De Candoixe, Prodromus. HooKEK, Flora Boreali Americana. Don, Bliller's Diction; -y, LouDON', Arboretum Br
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Rhus venenata, THE POISONOUS RHUS. Synonymes, Rhus venenata, Ehus vernix, Sumac veneneux, Girtiger Su'nach, Albero del veleno, Siiinticli, Swamp Sumach, Poison Elder, Poison-wood, ' De Candoixe, Prodromus. HooKEK, Flora Boreali Americana. Don, Bliller's Diction; -y, LouDON', Arboretum Britannicum. ToRREy AND Gray, Flora of North America. BiGELow, Medical Botany. France. GERMANy, Italy. Britain and Anqlo-America. of KfiH''l";;n^rio mlVifJi'i'^i"'""'' '"'"''"'"'â '" 'â ""'"^ '''°'" ""= ^''"' "'"'"""'' P"'^°"! »" ="=<="' °f '^e poisonous nature Engmrwgs. Bigelow, Medical Botanj, i, pi. 19; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicdm, ii., figure 226; and the figures below. Spedjic Charmers Leaf rather glabrous than pubescent, of 5-C pairs of and the odd one which are ovate 1 ceolate, acuminate, entire, and beneath reticulately Cnndolle, Prodromus. !f. Desa'iptio7i. HE Rhus venenata, in its ; natural habitat, is a de- ciduous shri;]v or low -. ^~. - - tree, growing to a height of ten to twenty feet; but when cultivated on more elevated grounds, it does not'jttain so great an elevation. The leaves are divided like those of the Rhus typhnia, but differ in being smooth and shining; tlie leaflets are very entire, nar- row, and pointed, with purplish-red veins; and m autumn they change to an intense red, or pur- ple. The flowers, which appear in May, June, and .luly, are mostly dioecious, small, and of a greenish colour. The drupes are whitish, and about the size of peas; and the nuts are rather broader than long, com
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