27A PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cyclamen. 



98. CYCLAMEN. Cyclamen. Sow-bread. 

 Linn. Gen. 82. Juts. 97. Ft. Br. 224. Tourn. t. G8. Lam. t. 100. 

 Nat. Orel, see ;/. 97. 



Cat. inferior, divided halfway into 5 ovate segments, per- 

 manent. Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped ; tube nearly glo- 

 bular, twice as long as the calyx, deflexed ; limb many 

 times longer than the tube, reflexed upwards, in 5 deep, 

 lanceolate, oblique, equal segments; mouth open, naked, 

 prominent at the circumference. Filam. very short, in the 

 tube. Anth. straight, acute, converging, in the mouth of 

 the corolla. Germen roundish. Style cylindrical, straight, 

 rather longer than the tips of the anthers. Stigma simple. 

 Caps, globose, of 1 cell, opening at the top with 5 parallel 

 teeth, the inside lined with pulp. Seeds numerous, some- 

 what ovate, angular, covering a central, roundish-ovate, 

 stalked, unconnected, receptacle. 



Herbaceous, stemless, perennial, smooth. Hoot orbicular, 

 depressed, intensely bitter and nauseous. Leaves varie- 

 gated. Flower-stalks simple, spiral after flowering ; some- 

 times glandular, as well as the foot-stalks. Cor. more or 

 less purplish, elegant. 



*1. C. hederifolium. Ivy-leaved Cyclamen. 



Leaves heart-shaped, angular, finely toothed ; their ribs and 

 footstalks roughish. 



C. hederifolium. JVilld. Sp. Pl.vA. S\0. Ait.Hort.Kew. n. 1.311. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 1001 > Comp. 35. 



C. europeeum. Fl. Br. 224. Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 548. 



C. hederee folio. Bauh. Pin. 308. Ger. Em. 884./. 



In groves and thickets rare, scarcely indigenous. 



On a bank at Bramfield, Suffolk, on a wet clay soil. Mr. D. E. 

 Davy. 



Perennial. April. 



Root globular, brown, sending out many branched fibres. Leaves 

 beautifully variegated with dark and glaucous green ; their un- 

 der side paler, purplish, with slightly glandular ribs. Footstalks 

 round, more glandular ; tapering and wavy at the base. Flowers 

 pendulous, on naked wavy stalks, taller than the leaves. Cor. 

 white, or flesh-coloured ; purplish about the mouth. As the 

 fruit advances, the flower-stalks curl spirally, and bury it in the 

 earth. A very acrid plant, especially the root, whose acrimony 

 is not much perceived at the first tasting, but soon becomes in- 

 tolerable. 



