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§ 2. Lieaves opposite, ohovate or spatnlate, long-petioled, icith small and nearly 

 sessile flowers in their axils : stems creeping or floating. * 



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

 petals, or small and reddish ones when the plant grows out of watei", 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-peduncled flower in the axil 

 ojf some of the upper ones : stems creeping in the mud. 



L. arcu^ta. 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. racemdsa. 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. ® 



11. FUCHSIA. (Named for L. Fuchs, 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 ternately 

 whorled 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 retiise, convolute around the base of 



the projecting fllaments and still longer style : flowers hanging on long 



peduncles from the axils of the leaves. 



F. COCeinea, 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 hardly 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. 



P. 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 cal_Arx white or 

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

 the petals being multiplied. 



§ 2. Long-flowered Fuchsias ; ivith trumpet-shaped or slightly funnel-shaped 

 tube of the calyx 2' -3' long, very much longer than the spreading lobes, 

 ivhich little exceed the acute or pointed somewhat spreading petals : stamens 

 and style little projecting : flowers crowded into a rather close drooping 

 raceme or corymb at the end of the branches : leaves large, 5' - 7' loiig. 



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

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



F. eorymbiflbra, 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; loith small flowers erect in a naked and compound 

 terminal panicle or cluster : lobes of the calyx and petals tvidely spreading. 



F. arbor6scens, Tkee F., from Mexico : a stout shrub rather than tree, 

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

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

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



