348 A Treatise on 
Ming both of Gum and Refin, but much more of 
the latter. In the Shops we meet with two Sorts 
(viz.) the Scammony of Aleppo , and that of Smyrna . 
Aleppo Scammony is light, rare, friable, of an 
Afh-Colour tending to Black ^ when broken, fhin- 
ing, and when rubbed to Powder by the Fingers, 
of a whitifh or gray Colour. It has a bitterilh 
Tafte with a certain Acrimony, and an unpleafant 
Smell. It is collected about Aleppo. 
Smyrna Scammony is more denfe and ponderous, 
and of a black Colour. This comes to us from Smyr- 
na ; but is brought thither from a Town in Galatia 
called Cute , and from Cogni a Town in Cappadocia not 
far from Mount Taurus ; where, as I was informed 
by Dodlor Sherard , who was thirteen Years Englijh 
Conful at Smyrna , it is gathered in great Abundance. 
The Aleppo Scammony is preferable to that of 
Smyrna . The beft is bright, eafily reduced to Pow- 
der, not violently acrimonious and burning when 
applied to the Tongue, and when mixed with Spit- 
tle, or other Liquors, grows white and milky. 
When it is adult, black, heavy, full of Stones, 
Sand, or other Drofs, it is unfit for Ufe. 
The Plant which yields this Juice is called Con- 
volvulus, Syria cus et Scammonea Syria ca , Morijfon. 
Hift. Oxon. part. 2. 12. It grows in Syria, and in 
great Plenty in the fat Soil about Aleppo. 
bourne fort obferves, that Biofcorides defcribes a 
Species of the Convolvulus or Scammony -Plant with 
a rough Leaf, wherein it chiefly differs from the 
abovementioned. He likewife tells us, that he found 
this rough-leaved Convolvulus not only in the Plains 
or Myfia , from whence Biofcorides fays the beft 
Scammony in his Time was brought, but alfo about 
Smyrna , and in other Parts of the Eafi. Hence he 
is inclined to think that the Aleppo Scammony is 
got from the Convolvulus folio glabro , the fmooth - 
leaved 
