CY'CLAMEN VER'NUM. 
SPRING CYCLAMEN. 
Claxs. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PUIMULACEit. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Turope. 
.3 incties. 
March, 
Perennial. 
in 1814. 
No. 580. 
The roundness of the tuberous root, or the circu- 
lar coiling of the peduncles of Cyclamen is doubt- 
less alluded to in the name, which is derived from 
the Greek KUKL0S,a circle. It has borne the name of 
Sowbread, an appellation which may be accounted 
for by the fact mentioned in Lindley’s Natural Sys- 
tem of Botany, That the root of Cyclamen is fa- 
mous for its acridity, yet it is the principal food of 
the wild boars of Sicily.” 
All the species of Cyclamen rank amongst the 
most delightful ornaments of the garden ; they pos- 
sess a beauty, a neatness, and oftentimes a fragrance, 
which delight every one who has cultivated them. 
It is difficult to account for their rarity, but so it is, 
that not one respectable garden in twenty possesses 
a collection of them. This is still the more singu- 
lar, when it is considered that they may be rapidly 
increased from seeds; and also that some one or 
other of the species may always be found in flower, 
indeed, the same species may be so managed as to 
greatly vary its season of gaiety. That we may give 
assistance to the more general culture of the several 
species of this charming genus, we shall, in the first 
