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the lip, is placed a small brush consisting of numerous fine 

 yellow glandular hairs. In addition to the usual number of 

 pollen-masses are a few extra of a very small size. 



CYCLAMENS. 



The following account of the European Cyclamens, which 

 are excessively confused alike in books and gardens, I owe to 

 the kindness of the Honourable W. F. Strangways, who has 

 studied the genus with great attention for many years. It 

 will enable our Botanical friends to set their herbaria in 

 order now for the first time. 



" 1 have seen all the European species (except some doubt- 

 ful ones) native in Italy, and cultivated them for many years. 

 The result is, that I believe there are but three ^ood 



European species. We must begin by dismissing names 



from our consideration. These three are all Europ 

 more or less ivy-leaved ; accordingly all are to be found 

 classed under those appellations. But" there are at least three 

 distinct species, so that besides the mistake of a name, there 

 is also a confusion of plants. For this reason Professor 



Tenore of Naples, who first distinguished the three, dist 

 buted the names as follows : 



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1. He gave to the Northern, Alpine, summer-flowering 



Cyclamen, the name Europceum, as the plant of Linnee 

 and probably with reason. 



" 2. To the Southern, Mediterranean, spring-flowering 

 plant, the name hedercs folium, as being the plant so named by 

 Clusius, who I think describes it as Cyclaminus hederae folio 

 verno tempore florens. 



" 3. What was to be done with the plant of middle Italy, 

 which all previous Botanists had seen, but none had distin- 

 guished from the two others? He rightly judged it to be a 

 distinct species, and like most Italian botanists, to honour his 

 own town, gave it the name under which it is published, viz. 

 Neapolitanum ; though No. 2 is equally common there, and 

 less common elsewhere, and, had not Cliisius named it, would 

 have made a better Neapolitanum. 



" I have found C. Europaeum always fragrant, flowering 

 in Austria in July and August, and as late as September— on 

 the Italian side of the Alps, in the Friuli- never south of the 

 Po. Tenore's C. Neapolitanum is common over all Italy, 



