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CYCLAMEN littorale. 
Shore Cyclamen. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PRIMULACEX. (Primworts, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 644.) 
CYCLAMEN.— Supra, fol. 1013. 
C. littorale; radicibus parvis spheericis, foliis synanthiis alte cordatis sub- 
rotundis acutiusculis integerrimis maculatis, floribus odoratis vernalibus, 
coroll: fauce subrotundà vix angulatá laciniis oblongis. 
? C. littorale, ** Sadler." 
? C. europseum, var. ? Reichenbach Fl. Germanica excursoria, 1. p. 406. 
Roots of this plant, collected, we believe, at the Lake of 
Como, were presented by Mr. Bentham to the Horticultural 
Society, in whose garden one or two have survived and flow- 
ered. It is mentioned as a variety of C. europeum by Mr. 
Gordon, in his paper on Cyclamens, published in the Gar- 
dener's Chronicle (1843, p. 660), in which all the known 
garden species are mentioned. It is as hardy as any of the 
sorts, and thrives in sandy loam and leaf mould; but can 
only be multiplied by seeds. 
It is so difficult to ascertain with what species this is com- 
bined with European botanists, that we refrain from attempt- 
ing to decide the point. It is probably one of the Cyclamens 
brought together under the name of Cyclamen europeum, and 
seems to be included in that species by M. Duby. It can- 
not, however, belong to the forms collected by Mr. Strang- 
ways, under the name of C. europeum (Bot. Reg. misc. p. 27), 
for they are summer flowering plants, with toothed leaves. 
It cannot be referred to C. vernum, for that has angular leaves 
almost without spots, and long flowers; for the same reason 
it must be separated from C. repandum and ficarüfolium, which 
are vernal species. In some respects it approaches C. Coum, 
especially in its perfectly undivided leaves and short flowers ; 
but although the latter are short, they are very much longer 
