as been mortal, but the pain ceases after a few days duration. The natives formerly made their flutes of this tree, because it has a great deal of pith. Some people assured me, that a person suffering from its noxious exhalations, would easily recover by spreading a mixture of the wood burnt to charcoal, and hog's lard, upon the swollen parts. Some asserted, that they had really tried this remedy. In some places this tree is rooted out, on purpose that its poison may not affect the workmen.

The natives are said to distinguish this tree in the dark by its extreme coldness to the touch. The juice of some kinds of fumach, when exposed to the heat of the sun, becomes too thick and clammy, that it is used for birdlime, and the infusitated juice of the poison-ash is said to be the fine varnish of Japan. A cataplasm made with the fresh juice of the poison-ash, applied to the feet, is said by Hughes, in his Natural History of Barbadoes, to kill the vermin called by the West Indians chigars. Very good vinegar is made from an infusion of the fruit of an American fumach, which for that reason is called the vinegar-tree. The resin called gum copal is from the rhus copallinum. See Copal.

RHIME, Rhime, Ryme, or Rime, in poetry, the similar sound or cadence and termination of two words which end two verses, &c. Or rhyme is a similitude of sound between the last syllable or syllables of a verse, succeeding either immediately or at a distance of two or three lines. See Poetry, p. 177, &c.