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tree ; and therefore afferts, that they are the fame.

It is natural to fuppole he compared them with the
accurate drawings of the feeds of Kampfer's Fan-no-
ki, p. 794. that being the only place where the feed,
of it are deferibed.
In the very next paragraph Mr. Miller feems to
forget, that from his own obfervations on the feeds
of the China nal-Mk-tree, he has afferted it to be
the Fajf-na-ki of Kcempfer ; but now he finds, in
his memorandums, that thofe feeds were wedge-
&aped, and like the kcds of the beech-tree ; and
that all the three feeds he received teemed to be in-
doled in one capfule fo that now he is at lok
what to call it ; and at the fame time lays I have
been too hefty in calling it a Rhus.
Mr. Miller goes on, and allows this China varnifh-
tree changes to a purple in the autumn ; but not fo
deep as the true vainith-tree. I (impose hc means,
. by this true varnilh-tree, the Carolina pennated Toxi-
codendron ; for Ifirrnpfer has not told us what co-
lour the true varnifh-tree of Japan changes to in
autumn.
But this is no certain proof on either fide of the
only a corroborating circumflance of the
(pecks of a tree : nor thould I have mentioned it,
but for the manner in which Kcernpfer, with an
imagination truly poetical, dekribes the autumnal
beauty of his Pafi-no-ii, or fpurious varnifh-trec.
Rubore fuo autumnati qui viridantes fylvas
titer interpolat, intuentium oculos e knyinquo in
le catmint.' Even this defeription would make
one third it is not the fame with the China varnifh-
tree, which, I am informed, did not turn pupal, in
the garden of the Broil Mukum till the firlt kelt
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