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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perjed ion, 
I. PERSIAN 
| H A Seafon. makes this valuable: but at 
: whatever Time fuch a Plant appear’d it 
would be worth the Culture it demands. 
The Leaves, as well as the Flowers, have their Beau- 
ty; and their Difpofition, ‘with the whole Form and. 
Manner of Growth are pleafing. | 
Our Gardeners know it by the | Name Perfian 
Cyclamen, and they have, in’ this, judg’d ‘better 
than many of the more celebrated Writers, who: 
over-look’d it among. the Number ‘of Varie-: 
ties rais'd from Seeds of the common Cyclamen, 
and thence omitted to give it a peculiar Denomi- : 
‘Nation. 
. Its proper f{pecific Name will be Cyilamel polis 
ovato-lobatis corolla retroflexa: Cyclamen, with 
ovato-lobated Leaves, and a retroflex Flower. 
It has been denominated folio angulofo, but the 
Divifions are all rounded ; and I am’a Stranger | 
to that Geometry which calls fuch Figures angular. 
The Root is tuberous. 
en long purple Foot-ftalks, fome erect, fome 
driegine,. others lying on the Ground.’ | 
. Their Form is oval, with two, or fometimes 
more. Indentings, . which divide the broad Bafé | 
from the fmaller Extremity, and part the whole 
into three rounded Lobes;’ 
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CYCLAMEN. 
Nature wantons in this Particular extremely, _ 
Some Leaves have the Divifions flighter, fome 
more deep ; and fome are fhorter, fome more ex. 
- tended in Length » all are indented deeply for the 
Reception of the Stalk, and their Colour j 1S a fine 
{trong green, a little ting’d with blueifh, The 
Ribs are of a fainter Purple than the Foot- 
ftalk ; and the fame Colour glows under the 
whole‘Leaf. 
Among thefe appear the Stalks of the Flowers ; 
| thefe are ‘of a paler red than thofe which bear a 
- Leaves, and more than twice their Length : they . 
rife naked from the Root, and each fupports one 
F lower. 
This is of great Beauty : it is large, and it 
_ hangs drooping. 
The general Colour is white; fometimes, but 
not univerfally, ting’d with a flefhy Purple ; and, 
_ at the Bale, always ornamented with a kind of Cir- 
ce | cle or Ring, of a deep Purple, rich, and velvety, 
- The Leaves fcatter themfelves wildly from‘it, | 
This fallen, there ripens a large Fruit, a kind | 
of” Berry, round, and when mature, burfting i inte 
| five Parts at the End, and fhewing, i in the Cavity, 
many Seeds of an oval Form, rais’d in fome 
Places by Ridges; with an oval loofe Receptacle. 
To know the Clafs and Place to which this 
Plant belongs in the Linn@an Syftem, let the 
Aaa See 
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