264 NATURAL HISTORY. 
ed in a loomy foil, Liga will thrive the beft. ‘The 
others may be alfo increafed by the fame means, or if _ 
they are laid down in the earth like carnation layers. 
CYCLAMEN. esa 
"Tue cyclamen is fo called in Latin, French and 
Englith, from the root being almoft round. It isa 
plant that produces from the root, leaves that are 
broad, almoft round, of a dark green colour, fpeck~- 
led on the outfide, and with purple on the infide: In 
the middle grow long pedicles, and at the top of which 
are the fingle leafed flowers, dividing into five parts, 
folding inwards. Autumnal cyclamens bear a red 
flower, fweetly fcented. In this feafon, blows one 
called the Conftantinople cyclamen, which bears the 
firft year twenty flowers; the fecond fifty, and the 

third two hundred ; and all without the leaft fmell. 
The cyclamen is raifed by feeds. The autumn cy- 
clamen fhould be fown in autumn, and the {pring cy- | 
¢lamen in the {pring. 
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OHNO 
SCARLET LYCHNIS. 
Te E beauty of this plant is fuch, as to caufe it to 
be ranked among the moft elegant parterres. Both 
the fingle’ and the double lychhis are very delightful 
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