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2. Leaves opposite, obovate or spattilate, long-petioled, with small ami m-tir/// 

 sessile flowers in their axils : stems creeping or floating. 



L. pallistris. Common in ditches and .shallow water : smooth, with no 

 petals, or small and reddish ones when the plant grows out of water, and oblong 

 obscurely 4-sided pods longer than the very short calyx-lobes. 



L. natans. From N. Carolina S. : larger than the foregoing, and with 

 yellow petals as long as the calyx-lobes, the pods tapering to the base. 



3. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, with a long-pedunclfd floiwr in the axil 

 of some of the upper ones : stems creeping in /lie mud. 



L. arcuata. From coast of Virginia S. : a small and smooth delicate 

 plant, with oblanceolate leaves shorter than the peduncle, yellow petals longer 

 than the slender calyx-lobes, and club-shaped somewhat curved pod. 



10. LOPEZIA. (Named for T. Lopez, an early Spanish naturalist.) 



L. racem6sa. Cult, sparingly, from Mexico : a slender, branching, nearly 

 smooth plant, with alternate ovate or lance-oblong leaves on slender petioles, the 

 branches terminated with loose racemes of small rose-pink or sometimes white 

 flowers (only \' in diameter), on slender pedicels from the axil of leafy bracts, 

 produced all summer, followed by very small round pods. (T) 



11. FUCHSIA. (Named for L. Fnchs, an early German botanist.) Well- 

 known ornamental tender shrubby plants, or even trees, chiefly natives of the 

 Andes from Mexico to Fuegia, mostly smooth, with opposite or ternatoly 

 whorlcd leaves. The species in cultivation, now greatly mixed and varied, 

 chiefly come from the following. 



1. SHORT-FLOWERED FUCHSIAS, or LADIES' EARDROPS; with the lobes of 

 the normally red calyx longer than the tube and than the petals ; the latter 

 normally violet or blue, obovate and refuse, convolute around the base of 

 the projecting fl'ament* and still longer style : flowers hanging on long 

 peduncles from the axils of the leaves. 



F. COCCinea, or F. GLOB6SA. Low, the rather small scarlet flowers with 

 globular or ovoid calyx-tube between the ovary and the lobes, which also form 

 a globular bud and Ifardly spread after opening ; leaves short-petioled. 



F. Magellanica, from S. Chili and Fuegia : less tender, with tube of the 

 calyx bell-shaped and much shorter than the lobes ; leaves short-petioled or the 

 upper sessile. 



F. macrostemma, from Chili : leaves on slender petioles ; calyx-tube 

 oblong or short-cylindrical, more or less shorter than the spreading lobes. 

 These species now greatly varied in color; some varieties with calyx white or 

 light and the petals deeply colored, some with the reverse ; also double-flowered, 

 the petals being multiplied. 



2. LONG-FLOWERED FUCHSIAS; with trumpet-shaped or slightly funnel-shaped 



/'ibc of the calyx 2' -3' long, very much longer t/ian the spi-<ii<l!n<i //<.,-, 

 which little excet-d the acute or pointed somewhat spreading petal* : 



and style little projecting: floirers crowded into a nitlur rlns, drn 

 raceme or corymb at the end ft he brunches : lean* /en/', 5' - "' long. 

 F. fulgens, from Mexico : smooth, with ovate somewhat heart-shaped leaves, 

 and scarlet flowers, the lance-ovate calyx-lobes often tinged with green. 



F. corymbiflora, from Peru : mostly pubescent, with lance-oblong and 

 taper-pointed almost entire leaves, and red flowers, the lanceolate calyx-lobes 

 and the lance-oblong petals taper-pointed, at length widely spreading. 



3. PANICLED FUCHSIAS; with small flowers erect in a naked and compound 

 terminal panicle or cluster : lobes of the calyx and pi-tuls widily spreading. 



F. arborescens, TREE F., from Mexico : a stout shrub rather than tree, 

 with oblong or lance-oblong entire leaves acute at both ends and usually 

 whorlcd ; flowers light rose-color, ' long, with narrow oblong calyx-lobes, and 

 petals rather longer than the tube, about as loug as the stamens and style. 



