XXVIII. 
CYCLAMEN* EUROPAUM. 
Sow-bread. 
Syvoyyms.—Cyclamen Europeum, Engl. Bot., t. 548; Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 207; 
With.,vol. ii. p. 299. Cyclamen vernum, Gray's Nat. Arr., vol. ii. p. 308. Oyela- 
men neapolitanum, Bot. Reg., U. S., 1838, t. 49; Loud. Gard. Mag., vol. xiv. 
Cyclamen hedere folio, Bauh. thv., p. 308; Johns. Gerarde, p. 843, f, 2, Artanita 
Cyclamen, Blackw. Hist., p. 147. Cyclamen orbiculare, Dodon. Pempt., 335. 
Cyclamen, Lobel. Icon., 604, 
Forrt¢n Names.— Fr.: Cyclame, Pain de pourceau. Ztal.: Pan porcino. 
Span.: Mazanade puerco. Germ.: Erdschuba, Schweinsbrod. Dut.: Werckens 
byoot. Greek: KuxAauwos. Latin: Tene rapum, Rapum porcinum, Tene malum. 
Nat. Order, Lysimacutm, Juss.; Ruracem, Linn.; Prinv- 
LACEH, Lindl.—Prnranpria, MonoGynta. 
Gen. Ciar.—Calyzx inferior, bell-shaped, of one petal, divided half-way 
into five egg-shaped segments, permanent. Corolla of one petal, wheel- 
shaped ; tube egg-shaped, longer than the calyx; mouth naked, promi- _ 
nent; limb much longer than the tube, in five deep, oblique, equal seg- 
ments, which are reflexed upwards. Filaments very short in the tube. 
Anthers straight, acute, converging in the mouth of the corolla. Germen 
roundish. Style cylindrical, straight, rather longer than the lips of the 
anthers. Stigmas simple. Capsule globose, rather fleshy, of one cell, 
opening at the top, with five teeth. Seeds numerous, somewhat egg- — 
shaped, angular, covering a central, roundish, egg-shaped, stalked, uncon-_ 
nected placenta or receptacle. ae 
The superior, bell-shaped, five-cleft calye, the monopetalous wheel-shaped — 
corolla, with a naked prominent mouth and five reflexed segments, and — Z 
the somewhat fleshy, one-celled, many-seeded capsule, will distinguish — 
this from other genera in the same class and order (Bazter). ae 
Ry. i in 2. Segment of corolla, showing the situation of the stamens. S 
¢& - Stamens attached to the base of the tube of the corolla. 4. A ripe capsule, — 
* From — Jo (edt from the root being round. 
