rhus vernicifera  From The Collaborative International
Dictionary of English v.0.48:        is capable of producing a
morbid, noxious, or deadly       poison of pestilential
diseases.       [1913 Webster]        the poison of evil
example; the poison of sin.       [1913 Webster]     Poison ash.
(Bot.)           found in the West Indies, from the trunk of
which a           black liquor distills, supposed to have
poisonous     Poison dogwood (Bot.), poison sumac.        some
species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity       for
the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a
longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of
the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under Fang.
secretes an acrid or venomous matter, that is conveyed
along an organ capable of inflicting a wound.     Poison hemlock
(Bot.), a poisonous umbelliferous plant       (Conium
maculatum). See Hemlock.        Rhus Toxicodendron, or Rhus
radicans, now classified       as Toxicodendron radicans) of
Nort