140 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



up spirally after flowering. Corolla purplish, rose colour, or pale 

 crimson, lilac or white, generally with deep crimson spots at the base 

 of the lobes. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from the Greek word kvkXoc, a circle, 

 from the roundness of its leaves and roots. 



SPECIES I— CYCLAMEN HEDERIPOLUM. Willd. 



Plates MCXXXVI. MCXXXVII. MCXXXVIII. 



Edch. Ic. n. Germ et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXXXTIII. Fig. 2. 



BlUot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2312. 



C. EuropaBum, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 548. BeiiUi. Handbk. Brit. Bot. cd. ii. p. 303. 



Non Jacq. 

 C. NeapoUtanum, Ten, Gren. & Gwh: PI. de Pr. Vol. II. p. 460. 



Kootstock depressed -spheroidal, convex beneath, flattish above, 

 1-headed, or in very old plants with 2 or more heads, smooth, emitting 

 roots over most of its surface.* Leaves appearing in autumn after the 

 flowers, ovate or broadly ovate (rarely triangular-lanceolate), cordate, 

 subobtuse or acute, angulated with 5 to 9 more or less 2">i'ojecting 

 points, finely and closely repand-crenate or denticulate-crenate, slightly 

 shining above, with a whitish belt within the margins. Flowers in 

 autumn liefore the leaves are fully expanded ; throat of the corolla 

 pentagonal; segments oblong-obovate, with an open loop at each side 

 where they bend back. Peduncles spirally coiled in fruit. 



Var. a, ge7iuinum. 

 Plates MCXXXVI. MCXXXVII. 

 P. liedersefolium, Belch. Fl. Excur* p. 407. 



Flowers pink, with a red base. Segments of the corolla oblong- 

 lanceolate. 



Var. [6, Jicariifolium . 



Plate MCXXXVIII. 

 C. ficarirefolium, Beich. PI. Excurs. p. 407. 



Flowers white. Segments of the corolla narrowly oblong. 

 In open woods and on banks. Very rare. Var. a near Sandhurst, 

 on the borders of Kent and Sussex, near Hastings, Sussex, where one 



* I am indebted to Mr. Atkins, of Painswick, for pointing out to mc the characters 

 of the species of Cyclamen, which may be drawn from the comparative smoothness 

 or roughness of the rootstock, and the presence or absence of root fibres all o\cr its 

 surface. 



