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CYCLAMEN europaeum.
Sweet-scented European Cyclamen.
Natural Order. P e im u l a c e i E . B r o w n p r o d r .l^ .
C Y C L AM E N . Supra, fo l.9 .
C. europceum, foliis orbicnlatis cordatis crenatis denticulatisve,
laciniis corollæ lanceolatis. Roem.et Schult. sy st.v . I .p . 129.
Cyclamen europæum. Spreng. syst. veg. I . p . 572. Willden. sp.
pi. 1. p. 809. Jacq. aust. 5. p. 1. t. 401. Pers. syn. 1. p . 171.
H ort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 1. p . 311.
Root tuberous, solid, rough, aud rugged, of a largish
size, produciug short rugged stems, from which spring
the leaves and flowers. Leaves n ea ilj orbicular, cordate
or reniform, bluntish, nearly closed at the base,
by being overlapped, crenate, or toothed with short but
unequal horny teeth, smooth on both sides, upper side
of a dull green, with a large white interrupted circle
round it, underneath of a glossy reddish purple, strongly
3-nerved from the base, the nerves branched. Petioles
shorter than the peduncles, nearly cylindrical, but
slightly furrowed on the upper side, of a rusty red colour,
clothed with a very short rusty pubescence. P e duncles
erect, rather thickest at the base, and slightly
tapering upwards, cylindrical, of a brown red colour,
thickly clothed with very short rusty down. Flower
nodding, delightfully fragrant, pale rose-coloured or
lilac, redder at the mouth. Calyx campanulate, deeply
5-cleft, clothed with a rough rusty pubescence, segments
spreading, broadly ovate, keeled, bluntish, spotted
with numerous minute brown spots, rugged. Corolla
deeply 5-cleft, with a short broad inflated tube,
and a large open mouth;. all reflexed, long,
broadly lanceolate, more or less twisted, bluntish or
scarcely acute, and longitudinally lined withnumerous
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