CYCLAMEN. 
C. alpinum is found high up by the melting snow in the Cilician 
Taurus. It has the habit and inflorescence of C. cilicicum, emerging 
before the leaves, which are of kidney shape, rounded at the end, 
intensely green above, irregularly banded with a broken line of 
white, and carmine-purple underneath ; but the flowers are not pointed 
or elongate in the petal as in C. cilicicum, but fat and short and 
rounded as in C. coum and C. ibericum, from which they chiefly differ 
in not turning sharply up, but spreading abroad. In colour they — 
are of a conspicuously fine bright rose, with a big and round (never 
triangular) blotch of dark purple at the base of each segment. 
C. x Atkinsti is a garden hybrid between C. coum and C. ibericum, 
which has bred a good deal of confusion in its time. It has the leaves 
shaped as in C. coum; that is, of a fat kidney design, smail, like a very big 
Soldanella’s ; but here they are of a most brilliant green, and blotched 
with silver white, instead of wearing true Coum’s unrelieved and sullen 
gloom ; the flowers are of palest pink or white, sometimes lined or 
flushed with crimson, and taking many named varieties in catalogues. 
C. balearicum stands close to C. repandum, but has flowers of half 
the size, very sweet, on very long stems; and the long-stalked leaves 
are merely heart-shaped—egg-shaped, dimly and remotely toothed 
here and there round their rim. They are purple underneath and 
dark-green above, marked with small white spots, The blossoms 
come up in spring, and are white with a throat of pink, but variable. 
(Stony places in the Balearics.) 
C. cilicicum is perhaps only a variety of C. cowm. It makes a 
large flattened corm in the Alps of Cilicia, and the leafage dies away in 
summer, to reappear in autumn after the first flowers have unfolded. 
These are softly pink, with very pointed petals, and a spot of intense 
crimson at the base; and the style hardly if at all protrudes beyond 
the mouth. 
C. coum is a small species. In autumn appear the small rounded 
leaves, of a sullen and leathery dark-green, black and leaden in effect, 
and unrelieved by the smallest touch of white. They are followed all 
the winter through by a profusion of little fat-looking flowers of a 
heavy magenta—though perhaps this judgment is not so harsh when 
they are seen bejewelling the January days with little glowing sparks 
of colour upon the dead earth. There is a much more attractive 
white form, but the shape of the small blossom always lacks the usual 
grace of the family. The true plant is not common, though its name 
is always to be found in the lists; the sure absolute sign is the 
unrelieved darkness of the Soldanella-shaped foliage. 
C. cypriwm, an autumnal species, differing from C. neapolitanum 
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