gardens seems to be a slender variety of this species 



narrower segments. 



" The flowers appear, as in many autumnal plants, before 

 the leaves, from the end of August to the first days of 

 December; the leaves last through the winter and form a 

 good covering for the ground at that season. Hardy, multi- 

 plies readily by seed, likes shade better than sun, and slopes 

 better than flat ground. 



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" The spring Cyclamen (hedercefoliumj also grows at 

 Naples, which would be a reason for calling this autumnale,"" 



For this account I am obliged to the Hon. W. F. Strang- 

 ways, who has also favoured me with the following note con- 

 cerning what he conceives the true C. Europaeum, of which 

 I propose some day to produce a figure. 



" This species, the name of which has been given to the 

 two other European species by Botanists who have not had 

 the opportunity of examining all of them in their native 

 site, is the only Cyclamen found in central Europe. It 

 would be better distinguished by the name cestwum, being 

 the only species that flowers in the middle of summer. 



'* Its root is a large, rough tuber ; leaves broad, orbicu- 

 lar or reniform ; slightly crenated at the edges ; varying 

 little in shape on different plants, and rarely affecting the 

 pentagonal or ivy-shaped form ; usually purple underneath, 

 and, like most Cyclamens, marked with darker and lighter 

 green above. 



" The flower is of a uniform rose-colour, inclining to 

 lilac, the segments striated with parallel veins : always 

 highly and agreeably perfumed. The mouth of the corolla 

 (a very good criterion in this genus) is exactly pentagonal, 

 with scarcely an indication of the ribbon -like pale edges, or 

 excrescences, which characterise the turn of the petals in the 



d Cycl. neapolitanum. The calyx segments are 

 broad and leaf-like ; the anthers broad and yellow. 



Cyclamen Europaeum seems to be confined to the Alps 

 and the countries botanically dependent on them : not being 

 found, as far as we know, north of the Danube or south of 

 the valleys of Lombardy and the Friuli. It is abundant in 

 the woods of the neighbourhood of Vienna, at Linz, in Styria, 

 and the banks of the Tagliamento, or the pass of the Pon- 

 tebba : flowering (with the leaves) from the middle of July 

 to the middle of September." 



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