CLASS V. ORDER I.] CYCLAMEN. 421 



rubbed. The stem from one to two feet high, round, branched, somewhat 

 strinted, erect. Lenvrs mostly hairy beneath, and rough with tubercles, 

 the lower ones on long footstalks, broadly lanceolate, the upper oblong 

 lanceolate, sessile, broader at the base, and more or less embracing the 

 stem ; all have a strong mid-rib, and several small lateral branching 

 veins. In other respects it is the same as the above, except that the 

 flowers are mostly a duller purplish colour. 



Habitat. — Road sides, and shady situations ; rare. In Essex, 

 Worcester, Kent, Surrey, Oxford, and near Norwich. Carse of 

 Gowrie, in Scotland. — Mr. G. Don. Near Balbriggan, Ireland. — 

 Dr. Scott. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



GENUS XI. CYCLA'MEN Linn. Cyclamm. 



Nat. Ord. Primulac'e^. Vent. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulate, five-cleft. Corolla with a cara- 



panulate tube, the limb of five reflexed segments. Capsule 



globose, opening with five teeth. — Name from xuxXoj, a circle, 



" probably from the circles formed by the spiral peduncles," or 



from the shape of the leaves. 



1. C. hedercBfo'lium, Willd. (Fig. 321.) Ivy leaved Cyclamen, or 



Sow-bread. Leaves ovate, angular, and crenate, deeply cordate at 



the base, orifice of the tube of the corolla with ten teeth. 



English Flora, vol. i. p. 274. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 107. 

 — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 183. — Cyclamen Europmum. — English Botany, 

 t. 548. 



Tubers large, globose, which put out branched fibrous roots. Leaves 

 all radical, on long slender footstalks, ovate, or roundish oblong, an- 

 gular, waved and crenated, deeply heart-shaped at the base, smooth, 

 the upper side beautifully variegated with dark and pale glaucous 

 green, with a central rib, and several smaller ones from the base, 

 more prominent on the under side, and somewhat glandular, the 

 surface of the leaf is somewhat paler than the upper, with a purplish 

 tinge. Flowers single, drooping on a long slender scape, thinner and 

 waved in the lower part, thicker in the middle, reaching above the 

 leaves after flowering, and as the seed advances to maturity, the scape 

 becomes twisted up in a spiral manner, and conveys them to the earth. 

 Corolla white, or pinkish, purplish about the orifice of the tube, which 

 is short, somewhat bell-shaped ; the limb of five deep acute reflexed 

 twisted segments, with two obscure teeth at the base of each. Calyx 

 deeply divided in five ovate acute segments. Stamens within the tube, 



