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4.FUCHSIA. 
In honor of Leonard Fuchs, an excellent German botanist of the 15th century. 
Calyx tubular-infundibuliform, colored, deciduous ; limb 4-lobed ; 
petals 4, in the throat of the calyx, alternate with its segments ; disk 
glandular, 8-furrowed ; baccate capsule oblong, obtuse, 4-sided.— 
Mostly shrubby. 8S. American plants of great beauty. 
1. F. coccinea. Ait. (F. Magellanica. Lam.) Ladies’ Ear-drop.— 
Branches smooth ; lvs. opposite and in verticils of 3s, ovate, acute, denticulate, 
on short petioles; fis. axillary, nodding; sep. oblong, acute; pet. convolute, half 
as long as calyx.—Native of Chili. A very delicate and beautiful green-house 
shrub, 1—6fhigh. Flowers on long, filiform pedicels. Calyx scarlet, much 
longer than the included, violet-purple petals. Stamens crimson, much exsert- 
ed. Berry purple. 
2. F. eracizis. Lindl.—sSv?. suffruticose, often simple; lvs. opposite, ovate, 
etiolate, slightly acuminate, glandular-dentate; fs. opposite, solitary, pendu- 
ous, longer than the leaves; pet. nearly as long as the sepals and much broad- 
er.—Chili. A beautiful parlor plant, quite common. Stem 2—3f high, thick. 
Flowers larger, but less elegant than in’ the former, with a red: calyx and crim- 
son corolla. f 
5. GAURA. 
Gr. yavpos, superb; a term characteristic of the flowers, ~ 
Calyx tube much prolonged above the ovary, cylindric; limb 4- 
cleft; petals 4, unguiculate, somewhat unequal, inserted into the 
tube; stamens 8, declinate, alternate ones a little shorter ; ovary ob- 
Iong, 4-celled, one only proving fruitful; nut usually by abortion 
1-celled, 1—4-seeded:— Herbaceous or shrubby. Lvs. alternate. Fls. 
white and red, rarely trimerous. 
1. G. Biennis. Biennial Gaura. 
St. branched, pubescent; Jvs. lanceolate, remotely dentate; spike'crowded ; 
calyx tube as long asthe segments; pet. rather declinate and shorter than sepals; 
fr. subsessile, 8-ribbed, alternate ribs minute.—A beautiful biennial, on the dry 
banks of streams, Can. to Ga. rare. Stem 3—5f high. Leaves sessile, pale 
green, acute at each end. Flowers numerous, sessile. Calyx reddish. Corol- 
la at first rose-color, changing to deep red. Stigma 4lobed. Fruit rarely ma- 
turing more than 1 seed. Aug. . . 
2. G. riripes. Spach. Slender-stalked Gaura. 
St. pubescent, paniculate and-naked above’; ws. linear-oblong, repand-den- 
tate, lower ones almost pinnatifid; branches of the panicle very slender, naked, 
with tufted leaves at their base; calyx canescent, longer than the petals—D 
grounds, S. and W. States! Stem rigid, 3—5f high, very leafy just below the 
panicle. Leaves 1—3’ long, 2—6” wide, tapering at each end. Petals oblong- 
spatulate, rose-color, or'white. July, Aug. 
6 LUDWIGIA. 
In honor of C. D. Ludwig, prof. of botany at Leipsic, about 1750. c 
Calyx tube not prolonged beyond the ovary, limb 4-lobed, mostly 
persistent; petals 4, equal, obcordate, often minute or 0; stamens 4, 
opposite the sepals; style short; capsule short often perforated at 
top, 4-celled, 4-valved, many-seeded, and crowned’ with the persistent 
calyx lobes.—% Herbs, in wet grounds. Lws. entire. 
1, L. auTERNIFOLIA. Seed-box. Bastard Loosestrife. 
Erect, branched, nearly or quite smooth; lvs. alternate, lanceolate, sessile, 
pale beneath; ped. axillary, solitary, 1-flowered,.2-bracted above the middle; 
pet. scarcely as large as the spreading, acuminate sepals; caps. large, with 4 
winged angles, crowned with the colored calyx.—Shady swamps: Stem 1—3f 
