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FÜCHSIA* microphylla. 
Small-leaved Fuchsia. 
— 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRARIE. 
FUCHSIA. — Supra, vol, 10. fol. 847. 
F. microphylla ; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis ovatis denticulatis 
utrinque glabris, floribus solitariis axillaribus foliis paulo longioribus, 
calycis tubo campanulato: laciniis erectis, petalis dentatis, retusis, 
staminibus inclusis, stigmate 4-partito. 
F. microphylla. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth. n. g. et sp. 6. 103. t. 534. 
Decand. prodr. 3. 36, » 
Frutex dumosus, dens? foliosus. | Ramuli pubescentes, teretes. Folia 
petiolata, ovata, glaberrima, denticulata, acuta, v. obtusa. + Flores solitarii, 
axillares, penduli, pedunculis pubescentibus. . Ovarium atropurpureum, 
globosum. Calyx campanulatus, purpureo-roseus, limbo erecto, tubo bre- 
viore, laciniis ovatis, acutis. Petala atrorosea,'retusa, bi- tri-dentata, 
calycis laciniarum longitudine. Stamina inclusa serie duplici, 4 petalis 
alternis et in eodem verticillo, 4 ad bases petalorum. Stigma 4-partitum. 
A native of the volcanic mountain Jorullo, in Mexico, 
where it was found growing by, Messrs. Humboldt and 
* Leonhard Fuchs was a Bavarian Botanist and Physician, born at 
Wembdingen in 1501, and died in:1566. He is best known for his Historia 
Stirpium, a work filled with figures of plants in outline, cut upon wood, 
which were excellent for their time, and had the merit. of being the first that 
were executed of the natural size. The original edition of this remarkable 
‚work was published at Basle, in folio, in 1542; an octavo edition appeared 
at Leyden in 1549; one French translation was published at Paris, in folio, 
in the same year; another at Lyons the year before; and an octavo Spanish 
version was broüght out at Antwerp in 1557. The learned Sprengel speaks 
thus of Fuchsius : — * Vatiniano odio prosequutus Arabes, quos impias 
bestias vocat, ad Grecos fontes ubique ablegat; acerrimé reprehendit 
recentiores qui, summo. rei medice damno, plantarum veterum nomina 
traduxerint ad Germanicas plantas ;" and thus of his work, “ Eo potissi- 
mim fine edidit, ut ad vulgatissimas Germanice australis plantas Botanicorum 
Studia converteret, atque icones daret, non sumtuosas, sed fidissimas, umbris 
partium solis expressis, in quo consilio ita adjutus fuit à Rod. Specklin, 
Argentinensi, ut ipse etiam partes essentiales non negligerentur. 
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