Remarks on Clycamen Ewopcciwi. 71 



tee, has our entire approbation, with one exception ; but, as 

 chmate may cause the difference, we need not designate that, — 

 intended, as the list is, for the State of New York, though 

 equally as well adapted to Massachusetts, and the other New 

 England States, which lie to the East of her boundary. 



Art. IV. Remarks 07t Cyclamen EtiropcBum. By John Lewis 



Russell. 



■ This little plant is said to be the hardiest of the species, 

 which compose the group of so interesting a genus as is the 

 Cyclamen. It may be considered as also one of the prettiest. 

 According to Loudon, it is a native of Britain, and, in the 

 Histoire des Plantes Veneneuses et siispectes de la France^ by 

 M. BuLLiARD, we are informed that there are several varieties, 

 designated by the form of the leaves, as well as the color of 

 the flowers, which are either red or white. The red, or rather 

 pale, purplish-colored flowers, belong to the type of the spe- 

 cies, while the pure white flowers constitute a variety. On 

 the sixty-fourth plate of the above-mentioned work is a beau- 

 tiful colored engraving of this plant in foliage and flower ; 

 and, what is singular, the leaves, buds and blossoms are rep- 

 resented as simultaneously developed. In this plate, the flow- 

 ers are of the reddish hue. Appended to the plate is a de- 

 scription, which intimates that it is a " gay plant, which flow- 

 ers in the woods in the month of September." Various names 

 are attached, such as Le Pain de Porceau of the French, 

 which is synonymous with that of Sowbread of the English, 

 and Svinbrod of the Swedes. Its scientific specific nomen- 

 clature indicates its distribution as an European plant, which 

 is also inferred from a similarity of significant appellatives in 

 various countries of the continent of Europe. The foliage is 

 exceedingly rich, consisting of cordiform leaves, of a purplish 

 tint beneath, and of deep green above, variegated with large 

 round spots of white, and irregularly circumscribed with whit- 

 ish lines. 



The white-flowered variety is preferable for cultivation to 



