CYCLAMEN. 
in the form of the foliage, which is excessively jagged and cut. The 
flowers are white, with narrow pointed petals twirled and tweaked 
fantastically. 
C. europaeum is the best-beloved of all, and by far the most 
generally charming. It may be seen in the Swiss woods and coppices ; 
but in the Southern Alps it breaks into fullest profusion, filling the 
long limestone screes of Baldo or the Tombea with a crowd of dancing 
ruby flames, and ranging far into the East, in the rough low places of 
Obir or Jelenk. Its flowering time is from July on into the autumn, 
and its dainty carmine-magenta butterflies are of perfect proportion and 
delicious scent. It is of the easiest habit anywhere; growing, as it 
does so often, in scree like that of the Long Scar under Ingleborough, 
it may be planted also in the coarsest moraine and gravel path in 
fullest sun. It may always be known by its evergreen leaves, which 
are rounded, smooth at the edge, dimly marbled, and with the rounded 
lobes almost touching on either side of their stems. There are various 
forms, of which the variety C. e. ponticum has broader petals, and 
leaves invariably and finely saw-edged. But the albino, though on 
record, is still to seek. 
C. graecum, Link (C. Poli, Chiaje), sends up pink blossoms with. 
a deeper base in autumn, on stems about equal to those of the leaves, 
which appear in full force a little later, and are heart-shaped and 
toothed regularly at the edge with horny teeth. 
C. hiemale is perhaps one of the plants that passes for C. coum ; 
for its foliage is of the same size and shape, but blotted with white 
marblings instead of being uniformly dark. The stout dumpyish 
petals differ from those of C. ibericum, in having a rounded and 
not triangular blotch of colour at their base. It blooms through the 
winter unperturbed, the flower-segments each sending down into the 
throat a line of intense crimson. 
C. ibericum has the same early habit, its carmine blooms emerging 
before the foliage in winter and earliest spring, each segment with a 
triangular blotch of crimson at the base. The leaves are heart- 
shaped or kidney-shaped, and only slightly wavy-edged, while the 
petals of both these last are in the fat style of C. coum. 
C. libanoticum is the most beautiful of all the smaller-habited 
Cyclamens. It lives on Lebanon rather better than anywhere else, 
where its leaves shoot up in autumn ; they are roughly heart-shaped, 
with rare irregular toothings round their edge (but never deeply 
lobed or gashed), dark purple underneath, and on the upper side of 
deep grey-green with a continuous band of white marbling. In 
spring come the lovely and fragrant flowers, large and well-propor- 
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