39O THE ALPINE FLORA 



larger, narrower, cylindro-campanulate, pale lilac with 

 deep violet streaks within. Eastern limestone Alps ; 

 2000-25oo m. White flowered varieties of all three are 

 found : 



Saluez sur nos monts la douce Soldanelle, 

 Cueillcz avec amour la fleur des champs neigeux; 

 Admirez sa corolle au rebord de dentellc, 

 Sa robe d'amethyste et ses reflets soyeux. 



Yers le sol tout glace la clochette se penche, 

 Le blanc neve qui fond la retient sur son seuil ; 

 Elle parait trembler aux bruits de 1'avalanche, 

 Et des bonheurs defunts porter un sombre deuil. 



Cyclamen 



"Eng. : Sowbread; Fr. : Pain de pourceau, Violette des Alpes ; 

 Ger. : Erdscheibe, Alpenveilchen. 



C. europaeum (PI. LXXV1I), Everyone is familiar 

 with this native of stony, half-wooded slopes of the chalk 

 formations, filling the autumn air with peculiar and 

 delicious fragance. The medium-sized, irregularly shaped 

 tuber with thin, smooth, yellow rind, often throws 

 out underground stems a foot away among stones and 

 under bushes. The leaves, which appear before or with 

 the flowers, are in themselves most beautifully marked 

 and with the vivid carmine or occasionally white flowers 

 give life to the late summer landscape. One of the best 

 of garden plants, succeeding in any sound loam under 

 partial shade, if planted sufficiently deep to provide for 

 the runners and offsets. Naturally it is partial to 

 limestone or mortar rubbish, and often flourishes in the 

 heaps of fallen walls. The name Sowbread, little suited 

 to such an honest beauty, comes to it from the passionate 

 liking of pigs for the tubers, which, again, are valued for 



