140 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



up Spirally alter flowering. Corolla purplish, rose colour, or pale 

 crimson, lilac or white, generally with dgcp crimson spots at the base 

 of the lobes. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from the Greek word i:vi;\oc, a circle, 

 from tlie roundness of its leaves and roots. 



SPECIES I.-CYCLAMEN HEDERIPOLUM. Willd. 



Platks MCXXXVI. MCXXXVII. ilCXXXVIII 



Re!ch. Ic. Fl. Germ et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXXXYHI. Pig. 2. 



Bilht, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2312. 



C. Eiiropceum, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 548. BeutJt. Handbk. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 303 



Non Jacq. 

 C. NeapoUtanum, Ten, Gmi. & Goch: Fl. de Fr. Vol. U. p. 460. 



Kootstock depre.'^sed- spheroidal, convex beneath, flattish above, 

 1-lieadcd, or in very old plants with 2 or more heads, smooth, emitting 

 roots over most of its surface.* Leaves aiipearing in autumn after the 

 flowers, ovate or broadly ovate (rarely triangular-lanceolate), cordate, 

 subobtuse or acute, angulated with 5 to 9 more or less projecting 

 points, finely and closely repand-crenate or denticulate-crenate, slightly 

 shining above, with a whitish belt within the margins. Flowers in 

 autmnn before the leaves are fully expanded ; throat of the corolla 

 pentagonal; segments oblong-obovate, with an open loop at each side 

 where they bend back. Peduncles spirally coiled in fruit. 



Var. a, genuinum. 

 Plates ilCXXXVI. MCXXXVII. 



P. hcdersefoliuni, Beich. Fl. Excurs. p. 407. 



Flowers pink, Avith a red base. Segments of the corolla oblong- 

 lanceolate. 



Var. jy, ficariifolium. 



Plate MCXXXVIH. 

 G. ficariaefolium, Beich. Fl. Excurs. p. 407. 



Flowers white. Segments of the corolla narrowly oblong. 

 In open woods and on l)anks. Very rare. Var. a near Sandhurst, 

 on tlie border.s of Kent and Sussex, near Hastings, Sussex, where one 



* I am indebted to Mr. Atkins, of Painswick, for pointing out to me the characters 

 of the species of Cyclamen, which may be drawn from the comparative smoothness 

 or roughness of the rootstock, and the presence or absence of root fibres all over its 

 surface. 



