320 NATURAL HISTORY. 
root, leaves that are broad, almoft round, 
of a dark green colour, fpeckled on the 
outfide, and with purple on the infide ; In 
the middle grow long pedicles, and at the top 
of which are the fingle-leaved flowers, 
dividing into five parts, folding inwards. 
Autumnal cyclamens bear a red flower, 
fweetly fcented. In this feafon, blows one 
called the Conllantinople cyclamen, which 
bears the firft year twenty flowers ; he 
fecond fifty, and the third two hundred, 
and all without the leaft fmell. The cycla- 
men is raifed by feeds. The autumn cycla- 
men fhould be fown in autumn, and the 
fpring cyclamen in the fpring. 
SCARLET LYCHNIS. 
TP* HE beauty of this plant is fuch, as to 
caufe it to be ranked among the mofl. elegant 
parterres. Both the fingle and double lych- 
nis are very delightful in appearance, they 
bear bunches of fcarlet flowers, upon (talks 
above two feet high, in June and July. They 
are fo greatly efteemed, that gardiners rear 
them in pots, to decorate the mofl beautiful 
parts of their garden, or to be placed, in the 
fummer feafon, in chimnies,where they prove 
a mofl: pleafant ornament. The double kind 
is increafed by flips, taken from the root in 
March. The fingle flowering kind may be 
propagated 
