This kinde of Sowebread may easily be knowne from all the other kindes, because his leafe is longer and narrower then others, fashioned at the bottome thereof with points, somewhat like vnto Arum or Wake Robin leaues: the flowers are like the former sorts for forme, but of a purple colour. There is also another of this kinde in all things like the former, but that the flowers are white.
| 1 | Cyclamen Vernum flore purpureo. Purple flowred Sowebread of the Spring. |
| 2 | Cyclamen astivum. Summer Sowebread. |
| 3 | Folium Cyclaminis Cretici vernalis flore candido. A leafe of Candie Sowebread. |
| 4 | Cyclamen Romanum Autumnale. Romane Sowebread of the Autumne. |
| 5 | Cyclamen hederæfolio Autumnale. Iuie leafed Autumne Sowebread. |
| 6 | Folium Cyclaminis Autumnalis flore albo. A leafe of the Autumne Sowebread with a white flower. |
| 7 | Folium Cyclaminis angustifolij Autumnalis. A leafe of the long leafed Sowebread. |
| 8 | Cyclamen Antiochenum Autumnale flore amplo purpureo duplici. The double flowred Sowebread of Antioch. |
| 9 | Cyclamen vulgare folio rotundo. The common round leafed Sowebread. |
9. Cyclamen Antiochenum Autumnale flore purpureo duplici. Double flowred Sowebread of Antioch.
This Sowebread of Antioch with double flowers, hath his leaues somewhat round, like vnto the leaues of the Summer Sowebread, but with lesse notches or corners, & full of white spots on them: it beareth flowers on stalks, like vnto others, & likewise some stalks that haue two or three flowers on them, which are very large, with ten or twelue leaues a peece, of a faire Peach colour, like vnto the flowers of purple Sowebread of the Spring, and deeper at the bottome.
There are of this kinde some, whose flowers appeare in the Spring, and are as large and double as the former, but of a pure white colour.
There are of these Sowebreads of Antioch, that haue but single flowers, some appearing in the Spring, and others in Autumne.
10. Cyclamen vulgare folio rotundo. The common Sowebread.
The common Sowebread (which is most vsed in the Apothecaries Shops) hath many leaues spread vpon the ground, rising from certaine small long heads, that are on the greater round rootes, as vsually most of the former sorts doe, being in the like manner folded together, and after spread themselues into round greene leaues, somewhat like vnto the leaues of Asarum, but not shining, without any white spots on the vpperside for the most part, or but very seldome, and reddish or purplish vnderneath, and very seldome greener: the flowers stand vpon small foot-stalkes, and shew themselues open for the most part, before any leaues doe appeare, being smaller and shorter then those with Iuie leaues, and of a pale purple colour, yet sometimes deeper, hanging downe their heads, and turning vp their leaues againe, as all others doe, but more sweete then many other of the Autumne flowers: after the flowers are past, come the heads turning or winding themselues downe in like manner as the other doe, hauing such like seede, but somewhat larger, and more vneuen, or not so round at the least: the roote is round, and not flat, of a browner colour, and not so blacke on the outside as many of the others.