This name is derived from the Greek cyclaminos, meaning roundish, and was suggested to Lobel from the form of its tuberous root. There are six European species - C. Euro-pasum, native of Austria, Northern Italy and contiguous countries; C. repandum, much the same line, but more Southern; C. latifolium, Greece and Palestine; C. Neapolitanum, Switzerland, Central Italy to Greece; C. Graecum, which is wholly Grecian; Cyclamen Persicum is not very different from C. latifolium, and the few other species are not much better. The whole genus is very much like each other.