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Cyclamen persicum. Persian Cyclamen. 
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CAz/j and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla rotata, reflexa, tubo breviflimo : fauce prominente. 
Bacca te£la capfula. 
Specific Char a tier. 
CYCLAMEN pcrjicnm foliis cordatis ferratis. Millers Dift* 
4-to. ed. 6. 
Linn^us in this* as in many other genera, certainly makes 
too few fpecies, having only two ; Miller, on the contrary, 
is perhaps too profufe in his number, making eight. The 
afeertaining the precife limits of fpecies, and variety, in plants 
that have been for a great length of time objects of culture, is 
often attended with difficulties fcarcely to be furmounted, is 
indeed a Gordian Knot to Botanifts. 
Our plant is the Cyclamen perficumoi Miller, and has been 
introduced into our gardens long fince the European ones; be- 
ing a native of the Eaft-Indies, it is of courfe more tender than 
the others, and therefore requires to be treated more in the 
flyle of a green-houfe plant. 
It is generally cultivated in pots, in light undunged earth, 
or in a mixture of loam and lime rubbiffi, and kept in frames, 
or on the front ffieif of a green-houfe, where it may have 
plenty of air in the fummer, but guarded againlt too much 
moifture in the winter. 
May be raifed from feeds in the fame manner as the round- 
leaved Cyclamen already figured in this work, p. n. 4. 
Flowers early in the fpring, and is admirably well adapted 
to decorate the parlour or liudy. 
\ aries with fragrant flowers, and the eye more or lefs red. 
