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A. ciliata, with solitary purple flowers ; A. Idctea, wliite 

 umbellate flowers ; A. lanuginosa, pink and yellow umbellate 

 flowers ; and A. villosa, pure white, with a yellow or pink eye, 

 are some of the most desirable of the perennial species. 



Aretia Vitaliana is a tufted Alpine plant about 2 inches 

 high with linear leaves and bright yellow flowers having the 

 corolla-tube inflated at the middle, and the ovary 5-ovulate. 



Cortusa Matthloli is a scapose perennial about 6 inches 

 high. Leaves petiolate, rotundate, irregularly toothed or lobed. 

 Flowers purple, umbellate, drooping. Corolla funnel-shaped 

 or campanulate, with a short tube and sub-erect limb. Capsule 

 2-valved. Swiss Alps. 



3. CYCLAMEN. 



A very distinct genus, remarkable for the large circular 

 compressed perennial rootstock, from which the leaves and 

 flowers spring. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short; limb 

 large, deeply lobed ; lobes turned back, giving the flowers the 

 appearance of a shuttlecock. Capsule 5-valved. There are 

 about eight species, in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The 

 name is from KVK\OS<) a circle, in allusion to the spiral peduncle. 

 Sowbread is the popular name for the species of this genus. 



1. G. Persicum (fig. 203). This species is the one generally 

 seen in conservatories, but it is not so hardy as the following 



Fig. 203. Cyclamen Persicum. (J nat. size.) 



species, and is merely introduced here for the woodcut. -There 

 are many handsome varieties. 



2. G. Europcvum. Leaves produced with the flowers, repand 

 or crenulate, ovate-rotundate, deeply cordate at the base, with 



