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slender filaments. Style long and slender. Fruit a pulpy 

 berry. The species are estimated at about fifty, with the ex- 

 ception of two from New Zealand, all natives of America. 

 Named after Fuchs, a German botanist. Almost any of the 

 species and varieties will flourish in the open air during the 

 Summer months, and some of them will withstand our winters 

 without protection if treated as heibaceous plants, while one or 

 two succeed well trained against a wall, in the more favoured 

 localities. F.fulgens (fig. 108) is one of the tenderer species 



Fig. 108. Fuchsia fulgens. ($ nat. size.) 



belonging to a distinct section, having a very long calyx-tube 

 and short sepals. 



The following are some of the hardier species or varieties : 

 F. globosa (tig. 109). This variety is readily known by the 

 globular form assumed by the incurved sepals, and is probably 

 a variety of F. macrostema, syn. F. Magelldnica. Indeed, 

 it is very probable that all or nearly all of the hardier varieties 

 are forms of that species, which is a native of the extreme 

 South of America. The variety called coccinea in gardens it 

 has lately been discovered has no title to that name, but 

 belongs to this group. The true coccinea^ sometimes called 

 grdcilis, has nearly sessile leaves and other differences, and is 

 now very rare in British gardens. Its native country is pro- 

 bably Brazil. F. Riccartbni is perhaps the hardiest of all the 



