. A Letter from Mr. John Ellis, F. R. S. to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F. R. S. Attempting to Ascertain the Tree That Yields the Common Varnish Used in China and Japan; to Promote Its Propagation in Our American Colonies; And to Set Right Some Mistakes Botanists Appear to Have Entertained concerning It . The OfficinalUnacardiuffiJetting on i&Jrmt. €tAlurt<k/, [ 869 ] of his true Varnifh-tree, on the fame paper with theother (5). Dr. Dillenius, late profefTor of botany at Oxford,has omitted thefe neceflary characters in his de~fcription of the true Japan Varnifh-tree from in his
. A Letter from Mr. John Ellis, F. R. S. to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F. R. S. Attempting to Ascertain the Tree That Yields the Common Varnish Used in China and Japan; to Promote Its Propagation in Our American Colonies; And to Set Right Some Mistakes Botanists Appear to Have Entertained concerning It . The OfficinalUnacardiuffiJetting on i&Jrmt. €tAlurt<k/, [ 869 ] of his true Varnifh-tree, on the fame paper with theother (5). Dr. Dillenius, late profefTor of botany at Oxford,has omitted thefe neceflary characters in his de~fcription of the true Japan Varnifh-tree from in his Hortus Elthamenfis, where he givesit as a fynonym for this American pinnated Toxico-dendron : whereas had he been exait in the defcrip-tion given it by his author, he muft evidently havemade it another fpecies. This has milled the accurateLinnaeus, who quotes Dilleniuss Synonyms forKaempfers Arbor Vernicifera, or Sitz-dsju. As another fynonym, and in proof of our Poifonafh or winged-leaf Toxicodendron being the true Ja-pan Varnifh-tree, Mr. Miller fays in his letter, thatMr. Catefby has given a very good figure of it, in hisNatural Hiftory of Carolina, Vol. i. page 40. wherehe calls it (6) Toxicodendron foliis alatis, frudtupurpureo pyriformi fparfo 5 but as the bare infpeftioninto
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