PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cyclamen. 273 

 98. CYCLAMEN. Cyclamen. Sow-bread. 



Linn. Gen. 8-2. Juss.97. Fl. Br. 22A. Tourn,t.6S. Lam.t.\00. 

 Nat. Ord. see w. 97. 



Cat. inferior, divided half way 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. Sti/le 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. Root orbicular, 

 depressed, intensely bitter and nauseous. Leaves varie- 

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

 times glandular, as well as \\\q footstalks. Cor, more or 

 less purplish, elegant. 



*1. C hederifoliuni. Ivy-leaved Cyclamen. 



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

 footstalks roughish. 



C. hederifolium. IVilld. Sp. PL t;. 1 . 8 10. Ait. Hort. Kew. v.l.3\l. 



Curt. Mag. t. 1001 ? Comp.35. 

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

 C. hederee folio. Bauh. Pin.3i)S. Ger. Em. 884. f. 



In groves and thickets rare, scarcely indigenous. 



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

 Davij. 



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. Foot-stalks 

 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 ut the first tasting, but sooh becomes in- 

 tolerable. 



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