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root was fbiiiul l)y Mr. Wilson Saunders. Viir. formerly grew at 

 Dranilieltl, Suirolk, ])ut I believe the bank has been destroyed, and 

 tile plant is not now to be found there. It (probably var. a) has been 

 reported from Pembroke, where it may have been [)lanted, and from 

 Notts, in which county it is said to occur plentifully, but 1 have seen 

 no specimens, and looking at the geographical distribution of the 

 plant there is little probability that it is native. 



[England.] IVremiial. .Viitumn. 



Rootstock somewhat turnip-shaped, but much broader across than 

 deep, brown, flowering when about 1 inch across, and increasing in 

 succeeding years to a diameter of 3 or even 4 inches. Leaves on long 

 petioles, incurved-recliiiate when young; the lamina li to 3 inches long, 

 varying considerably in breadth and greatly in the prominence and 

 sharpness of the angles, dark green, prettily variegated witii light green, 

 which forms scalloped concentric bands, underside concolorous, green 

 or more or less tinged with jmrple. Peduncles erect or ascending, 4 to 

 5) inches long, with the flowers recurved-reclinate when young. Calj'x 

 deeply 5-cleft, the lobes ovate, lanceolate, subobtusc, as long as the tube 

 of the corolla. Corolla tube globular; limb divided to the base into 5 

 sharply reflexed segments, about 1 inch long. In var. a the segments 

 are broader towards the apex, and have within the ttibc a crimson-rose 

 s[wt, which divides into two lobes on the reflexed part of the segment. 

 In var. 3 the segments are much narrower, nearly the same width 

 throughout, and pure white ; in both cases they are slightly twisted. The 

 fruiting pedimcles arc closely rolled up, the fruit is about the size of a 

 small cherry, dull olive or reddish, speckled with short maroon-coloured 

 streaks, the pericarp slightly fleshy, at length splitting at the apex 

 into an inconstant number of teeth, which roll slightly back to allow 

 the seeds to escape. Seeds about J inch in diameter, piano- or con- 

 cavo-convex, roughened all over with minute points, dim reddish- 

 brown, somewhat viscid when fresh. Plant glabrous, with the scapes 

 and calyx segments puberulent glandular. 



Ivy-leaved Cyclamen. 



French, Cyclamen a fcuUles Je Iterre. 



This plant is knowii by tlio common name of Sow Bread ; the root is purgative and 

 ai'i-id, and bad an ancient reputation in medicine. In Gcrarde's time it was regarded 

 a.s a dangerous plant to mothers, and he tells us that so great did he consider the 

 danger and inconvenience of touching it, that he had " about the place where it 

 groweth in my garden fastened stickes in the ground, and some other stickes I have 

 fastened also crossc waies over them, lost any woman by lamentable experiment find 

 my words to bo true, by their stepping over the s&me." 



