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of the leaf of a Geum, its hairiness, and the size of its flower, and, failing all these, on difference of locality, there is then 
no limit to such species; for as much variety may be found between English specimens of G. urbanum as amongst 
the above-mentioned species. As collectors and herbaria increase, and plants, supposed to have very limited or 
isolated areas assigned to them, are found to spread all over the world, we must modify our views of the characters 
they offer when these are variable. This is eminently the case with Geum; and I think that any one, having had 
as many specimens and species at once under the eye as I have, would regard the present as a plant common to most 
temperate parts of the world: in Asia, from Siberia to the Himalaya Mountains; throughout Europe; in Australasia, 
in Tasmania and New Zealand; in North America, from the Arctic Sea to Georgia; thence extending along the 
Andes to Peru and Chili, and so down to Fuegia. In the ‘Antarctic Flora,’ I assumed this species and the following 
to be both different from Fuegian plants; but more specimens have placed both in another light. Dr. Lyall’s 
Milford Sound plant is not in flower, but in young fruit, and entirely resembles G. urbanum. 
2. Geum parviflorum, Commerson ; parvulum, dense villosum et velutino-pubescens, foliis radicalibus 
interrupte pinnatisectis lobo terminali rotundato lobato crenato lateralibus 2—8-jugis parvulis v. 0, caule v. 
pedunculo folioso, floribus foliolis parvis involucratis, petalis calyce subduplo longioribus, stylo apice 
uncinato, carpellis villosis. Commerson. DC. Prodr. Fl. Ántarct. v. 2. p. 963. G. involucratum, Juss. 
DC. etc. An Sieversia albiflora, FZ. Antarct. v. 1. p. 1. t. 7? 
Has. Northern Island. Ruahine Mountains, Colenso. 
A small plant, 4-8 inches high, with a stout woody root, everywhere densely covered with shaggy yellowish 
hairs. It is extremely like a small alpine state of G. Magellanicum, and may prove to be so; but it is here kept 
distinct, on account of its size, villousness, the great terminal lobe of the leaf, and very minute lateral ones. The 
flowers appear to be white, from Mr. Colenso’s considering it closely resembling those of Sieversia albiflora, 
between which plant and this New Zealand one I see no difference, except that the old receptacle of the latter 
is villous, and of the Sieversia (perhaps from my specimens being too old) quite naked. 
Nat. Oz». XXV. ONAGRARLE, Juss. 
Gen. I. FUCHSIA, Plum. 
Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne in tubum deciduum apice 4-lobum producto. Petala 4, 
tubo calycis inserta, v. 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium disco urceolato coronatum, 4-loculare; stylo gracili; 
stigmate clavato; loculis 00-ovulatis. Bacca ovoidea, carnosa, 4-locularis, 00-sperma. 
This fine genus abounds in the tropical mountains and temperate regions of South America, from Mexico to 
the Straits of Magellan; but has hitherto been found in no other country except New Zealand, which is one of the 
most remarkable features in the distribution of the genus on the one hand, and of the New Zealand flora on the 
other.—One kind forms a large bush or tree, and the other a small prostrate plant. Both are perfectly smooth, with 
alternate petioles, leaves, and axillary pendulous flowers. Tube of the calyx united to the ovary, and produced 
beyond it into a campanulate four-lobed limb, which drops off from the ovary. Petals small and convolute, or none. 
Stamens eight, with long filaments. Style one, club-shaped at the extremity. Berry ovoid, four-celled, many-seeded. 
(Named in honour of Leonard Fuchs, a learned German physician.) 
1. Fuchsia excorticata, Linn. fil; fruticosa v. arborea, foliis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis lineari- 
lanceolatisve acuminatis remote et obscure dentatis subtus albidis, petalis parvis. Linn. fil. Suppl. Lindley 
in Bot. Reg. v. 1. t. 857. A. Cunn. Prodr. Skinnera, Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. Agapanthus caly- 
cillorus, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Moist woods throughout the Islands; abundant, Forster, etc. Dusky Bay, Menzies. Nat. 
name, “ Kotuku-tuku," Cunn.; of the berry “ Konini,” Lyall. (Cultivated in England.) 
