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 ( 13 ) feptic *efFeds admitted of more evident proof. As the Arnica, when firft adminiftered, often excites vomiting, or uneafmefs at the flo- mach, it will be neceflary to begin with fmall dofes ; but by re- peating the medicine two or three times this uneafmefs goes off. CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA. SCAMMONY BIND-WEED. STNONTMA. Convolvulus, foliis fagittatls, poftlce truncatls, pedunculis bifloris. Roy Lugdb. ^2^. Convolvulus Syriacus. Morris Hiji. 2. p. 12. Scammonium Syriac um. Gerard^ 866. Lobel Icon^ 620. Gummi-Resina. Scammonium. Pharm. Land, ^ Edm% 'ZK^y.^uvia, Diofc, i^AKfvS'iov P^ 7 'allia?i et quorund» Gr^ecor. Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. L. Ge 7 i, PluTit, 215. / EJf. Gen. Cb. Cor. Campanulata, plicata. StlgTTiaia 2, Caps. 2-locu- laris: loculis difpermis. , ^ Spec. Ch. C. fol. fagittatis poftlce truncatls, pedunc. teretlbus fubtrifloris. THIS plant grows plentifully about Maraafh, Antioch, Edlib, and towards Tripoly in Syria : it was firft cultivated in England by Mr. Gerard, in 1597. ^*oot 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. No. I. ' D, ' and