NAT. ORDER. 



Onagrarice. 



FUCHSIA GLOBOSA. BALLOON-FLOWERED FUCHSIA. 



Class VIII. OcTANDRiA. Order L Monogynia. 



Ckn. Cliar. Calyx, tubular-funnel form, colored, deciduous. Petals, 

 four, in the throat of the calyx, alternate with its segments: 

 nectary an eight-fuirowcd gland. Stamens, eight. Berry, ob- 

 long, obtuse, four-comered. Floiccrs, more often naked, red, 

 rarely white. 

 *^e. Cliar. Leaves, opposite, petioled, ovate, acute, slightly sen-ated, 

 smooth. Floicers, on long filiform peduncles, pendulous. Calyx, 

 of four scarlet sepals, united into a long tube, broad throat, much 

 larger than the included. Bcnnj, puiple. 



The difficulty of discriminating these different kinds of Fuchsia, 

 now so common in our gardens, of which Fuchsia macrostemma may 

 be considered the original type, has been felt by every one who has 

 turned his attention to the subject ; and this difficulty has been in- 

 creased by cultivation and the skill of the horticulturist in fertilizing 

 one kind with the farina of another; so that wliat few characters 

 were supposed to exist to entitle them to rank as species, are, of ne- 

 cessity, obliterated. Closely allied as the present is to that which 

 goes under the name of Fuchsia gracilis, it will, nevertheless, we 

 think, be found distinct; and possesses one strong claim to our atten- 

 tion, inasmuch as it is a native of the most southern portions of our 

 continent. 



Propagation and Culture. The elegance of the flowers, and 

 foliage of all the species of Fuchsia are well known to every lover of 

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