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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUMACH . The Sumach of See also:

commerce is the finely ground leaves of Rhus coriaria, a native of the See also:North Mediterranean region from See also:Portugal to See also:Asia See also:Minor; it is a See also:shrub or See also:low See also:tree with hairy leaves composed of I r to 15 elliptical leaflets with large See also:blunt See also:teeth, and large loose panicles of whitish-See also:green See also:flowers. Another See also:species, Rhus cotinus, known as Venetian Sumach, also a native of See also:southern See also:Europe and Asia Minor, yields the yellow dye-See also:wood known as See also:young See also:fustic; it is also known as the See also:Smoke-plant or See also:Wig-tree, from the feathery or hairy See also:appearance of the See also:flower-stalks, which become elongated and hairy after the flowering. The genus Rhus is a member of the' natural See also:order Anacardiaceae and contains about 120 species of trees or shrubs mostly native in the temperature regions of both hemispheres. The leaves are alternate and See also:simple or See also:compound, with few to many entire-margined or serrated leaflets, and terminal or axillary panicles of small flowers with parts in fours or sixes. The species are mostly poisonous, some being especially noxious. Such' are Rhus toxicodendron, the North See also:American See also:poison See also:ivy, a shrub climbing on rocks and trees by means of rootlets, and poisonous to the See also:touch. R. venenata, the North American poison See also:elder sumach or See also:dogwood, also contains an erttretnely irritant poison. R. vermicifera is the See also:japan See also:lacquer or See also:varnish-tree. Several species are cultivated in the See also:British Isles as See also:store, greenhouse or See also:hardy trees.

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