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The BRA TF GS -H: “HAESR: BALL. 
who firft found it in Kent, called it Convolvulus flore 
minimo ad unguem fere fetto 5 and under this name 
it is placed in Dillenius’s edition of the Synapjfis 
of Britifh plants. 
5. Sea Bindweed. 
Soldanella vulgaris. 
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The root is long, flender, and creeping. 
The ftalks are round, ftriated, weak, and 
ufually of a purplifh colour: they grow to a foot 
or more in length, and lean upon the ground. 
The leaves ftand irregularly: they have long 
footftalks, and are of a rounded figure, rather 
broader than long, and have a kind of ears at 
the ftalk. 
The flowers are Jatge, and of a beautiful deep 
red: they have long footftalks, and rife fingly 
from the bofoms of the leaves. The feed-veffel 
is fhort. 
The ftalk is tough, the leaves are of a flefhy 
thick fubfance, and the plant abounds with a 
milky juice. 
It is common on our fea-coafts, and flowers in 
June. 
DIVISION I. 
1, Syrian Scammony. 
Convolvulus foliis fagittatis pedunculis bifloris. 
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The root is very long, large, and thick, an 
furnifhed with many fibres. | : 
The ftalks are numerous and weak, like thofe 
of our common great bindweed: they climb upon 
bufhes in the fame manner, and run to eight feet 
in length. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and have long 
footftalks: they are large, oblong, and of the 
arrowhead fhape ; they are fharp at the point, 
and.as it were cut off with a nick at the two ends 
behind the ftalk. 
The flowers are large, hollow, undivided, and 
of a beautiful purple: they ftand two upon each 
footftalk ; but only one of them blows at a time. 
The feed-veffel is fingle, and roundifh, the 
feeds large and black. 
It is a native of Syria, and flowers in June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Scammonea Syriaca flore ma- 
jore convoluuli, Others, Scammonea Syriaca. 
The drug known by the name of Scammony at 
» the druggifts, is the hardened juice of the root of 
this plant: it is a ftrong cathartick. We have 
feen that the roots of moft of the dindweeds are 
purging, and this poffeffes that quality in the 
flrongeft degree of all. The juice which we know 
by the name of /cammony, though an excellent, 
isa rough medicine, and is never to be given 
without correctives, 
2, Cretick Scammony. 
Convolvulus radice longiffiima. 
The root és flender, brown, and of a vatt 
length. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, and 
three or four feet high. 
The leaves ftand in Pairs ; and are large, and 
C. Bauhine calls it Seldanella maritima minor: 
Others, Soldanella vulgaris. 
We have no othe fpecies of /oldanella a na- 
tive of this country. 
The roots and leaves of this fpecies are a very 
violent purge : they are much more fharp in their 
operation than thofe of the common bindweed ; but 
for conftitutions that can bear them, they may 
be ufeful. There have been inftances of great 
good done by this plant in dropfies. 
Some upon the fea-coafts pickle the young 
tops in the manner of fampire; and even in this 
way they purge very brifky. In this form they 
are a popular remedy againft the {curvy ; whence 
the plant has obtained the name of /curvygra/s 
among the common people; that name of right 
belonging to a quite different plant. 
The beft way of giving it is, to dry and pow- 
der the root ; but even in this ftate it will work 
very violently. Its proper correétives are ginger 
and annifeeds ; and, with right management, it 
may thus be made very ferviceable in fome ftub- 
born complaints, 
OUR “Bele GeNi eS Paps © 1B is: 
of a beautiful green: they have long, flender 
footftalks, and are heart-fafhioned at the bafe, 
narrow in proportion to their length, aud pointed 
at the ends, : 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful 
purple: they ftand fingly at the tops of the 
branches, and are irregularly dented at the 
edges. 
The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, and the 
feeds are black. 
It is a native of the ifland of Crete, and flowers 
in July. 
Alpinus calls it Scammonea macrorbizos, 
Others, Scammonea Cretica. 
The root abounds with a fharp juice, of the 
fame nature with that of the Syrian fcammony. 
Tt is prepared in the fame manner, by dry- 
ing, and ufed for the fame purpofes ; but it is 
milder than the other. 
3. Silver Bindweed. 
Convolvulus althea Soliis argenteus, 
The root is long, flender, and fpreading. 
The ftalks are numerous, and weak ; they trail 
upon the ground, and are of a pale green colour. 
hairy, and tough. : 
The leaves ftand irrecularly. ah 
footftalks, which are fo nea See 
droop: they are of a beautiful fhape and colour : 
they are oblong, heart-fafhioned at the bafe. 
and pointed at the end; but toward the hate 
they are alfo deeply indented or divided in the 
palmated manner; and they are notched all the 
way along the edges, 
The flowers ufually grow two on a footftalk 
fometimes fingly. Each has its own feparate 
seat and they are large, and of a beautiful 
Ted. 
The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, 
The 
