240 FLORA HOM(COPATHICA. 
venience to avoide, I have (about the place where it groweth 
in my garden) fastened sticks in the ground, and some other 
stickes I have fastened also crossewaies over them, least any 
woman should by lamentable experiment finde my words to be 
true, by their stepping over the same.” 
Some authors state that the juice rubbed over the umbilicus 
will produce an evacuation; and it has been used in the same 
manner to produce abortion. Vicat (Mat. Med., Leip., 1782) 
gave it in toothache. Bourgeris in amenorrhea, and to pro- 
mote the expulsion of the placenta. 
Description.—Cyclamen is a perennial plant. The root is 
large, orbicular, compressed, brown, sending out many branched 
fibres. Leaves all radical, heart-shaped, angular, finely toothed; 
when full grown three inches and a half long, and two inches 
and a half broad, deep green, and spotted above, commonly red- 
dish-purple underneath, smooth, on very long petioles. Flowers 
drooping, purplish, sweet scented, peduncles resembling the 
petioles, erect, with the flower spiral with the fruit. Capsular berry 
coriaceous, purple, opening first at the top and then entirely. 
Seeds large, rufous, kidney-shaped. After the flowers are over, 
the flower-stalks curl spirally, inclosing the germen in the centre, 
and lowering it to the earth, repose on the surface of the soil 
till the seeds are ready to escape. 
GrocraruicaL Disrrisution.— Cyclamen is a native of 
the south of Germany, Austria, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Tartary, 
etc. ; cultivated extensively in our gardens, and is now found 
in a wild state, but is not truly indigenous. 
Locauirizs.—In shady places, and on moist grounds. Grows 
in profusion round the temples of Pzstum, near Naples, where — 
it was found by the author, in full flower, in August. The 
specimen from which the drawing was taken was found near 
- Drumcondra, in Ireland. 
Parts usep 1N Mepicine, anD Mopre or PREPARATION.— - 
Pie homeopathic purposes, we take the fresh roots gathered in — Le 
the — and express the juice, mix it with equal quantities 
