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The street sparrows, pestiferous and persistent as they are, would forsake my sylvan pageant if I spoke of the Bird-foot Violet as the 'Viola Pedata'; and the commonest cur would run howling if he beard the gentle Poison Dogwood maligned as the 'Rhus Venenata'. The very milk-cans would turn to their native pumps in disgust from my attempt to invoke our simple American Cowslip as the 'Dodecatheon Meadia'.
RHUS Cotinus. VENUS'S SUMACH. The bark of the stalks produces a yellow colour; the bark of the roots produces a red. RHUS coriaria. ELM-LEAVED SUMACH. This plant is possessed of the same qualities as the one above. RUBIA tinctorum. The root produces a red colour. For its culture, see p. 32. RUMEX maritima. DOCK. The whole herb gives out a yellow colour. SALIX pentandra.
"What would you advise, then, in order to prolong our patient's life for a month?" DR. MORGAN. "Give him Rhus!" DR. DOSEWELL. "Rhus, sir! Rhus! I don't know that medicine. Rhus!" Dr. MORGAN. "Rhus Toxicodendron." The length of the last word excited Dr. Dosewell's respect. A word of five syllables, that was something like! He bowed deferentially, but still looked puzzled.
The substance applied to wood to produce what is called lacquer, is not what is generally known in England as varnish. It is really the sap of the rhus vernicifera which contains, among other ingredients, about 3 per cent. of a gum soluble in water.
"Miss Flower, what are those leaves, please? those in Chicago's hair, and on her dress." Miss Flower looked, and her cheerful face grew grave. "Rhus veneneta" she said; "poison dogwood." "I was afraid so!" said Massachusetts. "I told her yesterday that I thought they were dogwood, and advised her to show them to you before she touched them again." "Poor child!" said kind Miss Flower.
It is distinct and pretty when in flower, and one of the hardiest and most accommodating of shrubs. The leaves are handsome, being deeply serrated and silky on the under sides, while the pure white flowers are often about 2 inches across. It grows about 4 feet in height, and is a very distinct and desirable shrub. RHUS COTINUS. Smoke Plant, Wig Tree, or Venetian Sumach. Spain to Caucasus, 1656.
Lambert. Ruth told him what they supposed had happened to Amy the day before and where she had been found late at night. "Humph!" grunted the medical practitioner. "That's what I thought. Effect of the Rhus Toxicodendron. Bad case." This sounded very terrible to Ruth until she suddenly remembered something she had read in her botany. A great feeling of relief came over her.
"What would you advise, then, in order to prolong our patient's life for a month?" DR. MORGAN. "Give him Rhus!" DR. DOSEWELL. "Rhus, sir! Rhus! I don't know that medicine. Rhus!" Dr. MORGAN. "Rhus Toxicodendron." The length of the last word excited Dr. Dosewell's respect. A word of five syllables, that was something like! He bowed deferentially, but still looked puzzled.
Doly, however, did not escape so easily. The noxious Rhus produced its most evil effects upon her face and hands, and for a week she led a life of physical torture enhanced by humiliation of spirit. Upon another occasion a neighbor's child dropped a small marble in front of Little John, who unhesitatingly picked it up, put it into his mouth, and swallowed it before anybody could interfere.
Many plants have an intensely irritating action on the skin, and when absorbed act as active poisons. =Rhus toxicodendron= is the poison oak or poison ivy. Poisoning by this plant is rare in England, though not uncommon in the United States. Mere contact with the leaves or branches will in many people set up an acute dermatitis, with much oedema and hyperæmia of the skin.
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