N. B. G. Sandhurst: W. Christy, Esq. ibid . Near Sandhurst, in the woods 
on both sides of the road front llawkhurst to Newenden : 1841 ; Mr. Howard 
Jf.nnir, and i\lr. Walter \V. Hi eves. — Notts ; At Hangar, near the seat of 
Earl Howe, plentifully, hut yet doubtful as a native, (on the authority of Mr. 
Gregory): Ilev. G. Gkabrf, in 13. G. This station does not appear to be 
confitmed by present Botanists : Mr. H. C. Watson, in N.I3.G. — Suffolk; On 
a steep bank in the parish of Bromfield, on a wet clay soil: Mr. I). K. Davy, 
in Sm. FI. Brit . — WALES. Pembrokeshire ; “ 1 found a large plant of it 
in the woods at Stockpole Court, but suspect it is not a native:” Mr. Milne, 
in B. G. 
Perennial. — Flowers in April. 
Root large, orbicular, compressed, brown, sending out many 
branched fibres. Leaves all radical, heart-shaped, angular, finely 
toothed ; when full grown 3 inches and a half long, and 2 inches 
and a half broad, beautifully variegated with dark and glaucous 
green ; their underside paler, purplish, with slightly glandular ribs. 
Petioles f leaf -stalks J from 3 to 6 inches long, cylindrical, minutely 
glandular ; tapering and wavy at the base. Young leaves often 
much more distinctly lobed than the full-grown ones. Flowers 
handsome, pendulous, on naked wavy stalks, taller than the leaves. 
Calyx small, divided halfway into 5 egg-shaped segments. Corolla 
white or pale-pink ; purplish about the mouth, which is distinctly 
toothed. Stamens very short, concealed within the corolla. After 
the flowers are over, the flower-stalks curl spirally (see fig. 6.), 
enclosing the germen in the centre, and, lowering it to the earth, 
repose on the surface of the soil till the seeds are ready to escape. — 
This beautiful and admirable process, says Mr. Denson, in Gard. 
Mag. v. vii. p. 563, is sufficient to suggest to the observant gardener 
that the seeds of Cyclamen require to be sown the moment they 
are ripe. 
't he root of this plant, in a recent state, (for when dried it is said to lose such 
properties,) is powerfully pungent and acrid, yet, notwithstanding this, it is the 
chief food of the wild boars of Sicily, where it abounds ; hence its common name 
of Sow-bread. 
The accompanying plate is from a very beautiful drawing by Mr. Isaac 
Russell, botanical draughtsman, and glass painter, of Oxford, from a specimen 
kindly communicated to me by Mr. Walter W. Reeves, of Farnham, Surrey, 
from its station near Sandhurst, Kent. I have also received fine living plants of 
it from my kind friend Mr. Edward Jenner, of Lewes, Sussex, taken up in the 
same locality, in November, 1841. 
“ In what delightful land 
Sweet scented flower didst thou attain thy birth ? 
Thou art no offspring of the common earth, 
By common breezes fann’d. 
Thy beauty makes rejoice 
My inmost heart; I know not how ’tis so. 
Quick eoming fancies thou dost make me know, 
For fragrant is thy voice. 
Thy home is in the wild, 
’Mong sylvan shades near music haunted springs. 
Where peace dwells all apart from earthly things, 
Like some secluded child. 
Thou bringst unto the soul 
A blessing, and a peace inspiring thought, 
And dost the goodness and the power denote. 
Of Him who form’d the whole.” 
\V. Anderson. 
