ORD. XIII. CAMPANACEA., 
(From Campana a bell )}—Plants with bell-shaped flowers. 
CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA. SCAMMONY BIND-WEED. 
SYNONYMA.  Convolvulus, foliis sagittatis, postice truncatis, 
pedunculis bifloris, Roy Lugdb. 427. Convolyulus Syriacus. 
Morris Hist. 2. p.12. Scammonium Syriacum. Gerard. 866. 
Lobel Icon, 620.. Gummi-Resina. Scammonium. Pharm. Lond. 
& Edinb. Zxayponan Diosc. Aaxpdor Trallian et quorund. Grecor. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. L. Gen. Plant. 215. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. Campanulata, plicata. Stigmata?. Caps. 2-lo- 
cularis: loculis dispermis. 
Sp. Ch.  C. fol. sagittatis postice truncatis, pedunc. teretibus 
subtrifloris. 
THIS plant grows plentifully about Maraash, Antioch, Edlib, . 
and towards Tripoly i in Syria: it was first cultivated in England by 
Mr. Gerard, in 1597. The root is from three to four feet long, 
and from nine to twelve inches in circumference, covered with 
_ bark of a light grey colour; it is perennial, tapering, branched 
towards the bottom, and contains a milky juice: the stalks are 
numerous, slender, twining, and spread themselves upon the 
