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more propesly come into his twenty-fccond dale of

Dicer. than his fifth of Ponteedrut, into which he
ranges ;he Rhus. At the bottom of the charaaers
of that goats be has added a note, to chew the
varmill-tree is R.
But r there arc feveral other !peemnn . which agree
in this eflkotial dim-after of dillindion ; In, accord-
ing to the Liman fytion. they fhould be (operated
from the Rbus, with another generical title.
Mr. Ellis obferves, upon thc poetical defcription,
which he fays Kempf.- has gnarl of the leaves of the
wild varnifls-trce turning red m the autumn, that he
had not found it to bc the cafe of the tree growing in
the Rove at Rufbeidge. How it appeared in that fitua-
don, I know not ; but the kawes of all thofe, which
ere growing in the Chelfea garden, and Rand in the
open air, do conflantly change to a purple colour in
the autumn, before they fall off from the throb :
but thole of the true varnifh-tree are much morc re-
markable fie the deepritifs of their colour.
Mr. EBB lays, he had received a letter from Dr.
Soltherp, peofefror of botany at Ortford, in which
the DoCtor informs him, that there is no,fFacirnen
of the true vernifh-tree in the Sherardian colleCtion
8 Oxford ; but that there is one of Jekno-li, or
fparioss varnith-tree of Kcempfer. How the DoCtor
mold wfite lo, I cannot conceive; ke I am very fure
therc was no fpecimen of the latter in that colleCtion
while it remained in London, having myfelf often
'Mead that part of it and fure I arn, Dr. Lfillenin
mu added that fynonym to the former : and I do
1$ believe the lance was no other way known in Europe,
1. Owe hy Kompla's figure and defcription of II, eX-
,, cquing,

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