396 DR. J. C. COSTERUS ON MALFORMATIONS 
the matter of that also F. conica, F. longiflora, F. recurvata, F. 
gracilis, F. mutabilis, and F. tenella are assumed to be. Suppose 
now F. globosa had been kept free from the influence of other 
species after its introduction into Europe, and only its own seed- 
lings had been intercrossed, yet even then the numerous varieties 
now existing eould not be considered as the offspring of one 
single species. 
But the Fuchsia globosa of 1830 has actually been intercrossed 
with F., conica, and above all with F. fulgens. which, having been 
discovered by two Spaniards, was brought to England in 1837 by 
Hartweg. About the time when these intererossings were per- 
formed by English florists, in Germany new varieties were 
obtained by feeundating F. globosa with the pollen of F. longi- 
flora, F. reflexa, F. Harrisonii, F. mutabilis, F. virgata, F. Tar- 
getti, and others. Some time after F. corymbiflora and F. macro- 
stemma were used for the same purpose. It is obvious that in 
this way the number of sorts increased surprisingly, and we need 
hardly wonder at the fact that as early as 1849 a celebrated 
florist could offer 150 varieties. After that time there appeared 
Fuchsias with white corollas, striped petals, speckled calyces, 
double flowers, &e.; while, on the other hand, the older varieties 
dropped into the second rank, and ultimately vanished from the 
lists *. 
The above sufficiently proves that the Fuchsia has a multiple 
origin, as Darwin puts it. It would undoubtedly be an interest- 
ing investigation to compare the cultivated varieties with the 
wild species; for “a botanist well acquainted with the parent 
forms would probably detect some curious structural differences 
in their erossed and cultivated descendants; and he would cer- 
tainly observe many new and remarkable constitutional pecu- 
liarities” +. 
Such a study, however, would not only require a compl te 
acquaintance with the wild species, but also the most thorough 
information about all the varieties now existing. But this is not 
the object of the present paper. In it I propose to treat of the 
great number of malformations of Fuchsias, and after what I 
* How easily Fuchsias are fertilized by one another's pollen is also proved 
by the experiments of C. F. von Gaertner (Versuche und Beobachtungen über 
die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich, 1849), who obtained perfect seeds by 
pollinating Fuchsia fulgens by F. coccinea, and F. globosa by F. macrostemma. 
* The Variations of Animals and Plants, &c., 1875, p. 338. 
