CHAP. IV.] 



THE GENUS FUCatSiA. 



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comprises all the kinds which have long project- 

 ing stamens. 



As the general arrangement of the parts of 

 the flower is nearly the same in both divisions, 

 jig. 31, which represents the section of a flower 

 of F. cylindracea, from the Botanical Register^ 

 will give my readers a clear idea of the botanical 

 construction of the Fuchsia. In this figure, a 

 shows two cells of the ovary (which when entire 

 is four-celled, opening 

 when ripe into four 

 valves), with the seeds 

 attached to a central 

 placenta. This ovary 

 is surrounded and 

 protected by the di- 

 lated disk, which also 

 serves as a lining to 

 the tubular part of 

 the calyx, h. The an- 

 thers, in this division, 

 have very short fila- 

 ments, which are inserted in the hning of the 

 calyx, as shown at c ; ^ is the style, which, in 

 fact, consists of four styles united together, and 

 which divides near the apex into four stigmas ; 

 e e are two of the four lobes of the calyx ; and f 

 is one of the four petals. 



In the second division, of which F. coccinea 



Fig. 31. — Section of the flowek op- 

 Fuchsia CyiilNDRACEA. 



