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Fucusia LycioipEs. Box-THORN FucHSIA. 
Claft tind Order: 
OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIAe 
Generic Charager. . 
_ Cal. 4-partitus, coloratus, corollifer. Cor. 4-petala. Bacca 
infera, 4-locularis, poly{perma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
FUCHSIA lycioides ; caule tuberculato, foliis ovalibus inte- 
 gerrimis petiolis pedunculifque aggregatis, laciniis 
calycinis reflexo-patentibus petalis bis longioribus. 
FUCHSIA Jycioides ; calycis laciniis reflexis petalis duplo 
longioribus, antheris alternis brevioribus. Gawler 
Recenf. Plant. p. 20. 
FUCHSIA Jycioides. Bot. Repof. t. 120. 
ees 
The Fucusra coccinea, figured at No. 96 of this work, was 
at that time treated as a ftove plant, but is now found to be 
hardy enough to bear our winters in the open ground; but 
then the ftalks generally perifh, and the roots put forth new 
oots in the fpring. 
The prefent plant, as well as that, is a native of Chili, but re- 
quires the proteétion of a greenhoule ; for, when the ftem is 
deftroyed by the froft, the plant we believe perifhes altogether, 
and will not fhoot up again in the following year. 
The Fucusta /ycioides firft flowered in the King’s Garden 
at Kew, in the year 1796, where it was introduced by our 
ntiend Mr. Arcurpatp Menzies. It is readily propagated 
Y cuttings of the young fhoots, which fhould be fet in a hot- 
in March. Produces its flowers from Augult to Novem- | 
t, which are far lefs fhewy than thofe of the fcarlet Fuchfia, 
nor are the petals coiled up in the fame manner ; neverthelefs 
“18 a curious fhrub, and by no means void of beauty, 
