EVEWING PRIMROSE FAMILY 



Ovary. — Oblong; style longer than stamens, slender with capitate 

 stigma. 

 Fruit. — A red, pulpy, four-celled berry. 



The Fuchsia was first discovered by Father Plumier, a mission- 

 ary in South America, who named it in honor of Fuchs, a Ger- 

 man botanist, and published the name in 1703, calling his new 

 flower Fuchsia triphylla. 



The popular introduction of the genus came about in an entirely 

 different way. The story goes that in the year 1788 a sailor lad 

 who had returned from South America brought with him to Lon- 

 don a growing plant which he gave to his mother. This was 

 placed upon the window-sill and carefully tended. At length it 

 flowered and attracted the attention of a nurseryman, Mr. James 

 Lee, who chanced to pass that way. Impressed by the beauty 

 of the flower, as well as the unusual form and habit of the plant, 

 he succeeded in purchasing it. He struck cuttings as rapidly 

 as possible, and as soon as his stock was sufficiently large put it 

 upon the market, realizing, it is said, /i300 upon his investment. 

 This plant is believed to have been Fuchsia coccinea, now regarded 

 as a variety of Fuchsia macrostemma. 



The Fuchsia does well on the Pacific coast, especially in San 

 Francisco. There it develops into a. sturdy, compact little bush, 

 two to five feet high, dripping blossoms at the axil of every leaf. 



GREAT WILLOW-HERB. FIRE-WEED 



Epildhium angustifblium. 



Epilobium, Greek, upon a pod; referring to the flower placed upon a 

 long ovary. 



A tall perennial with ruddy stem and willow-like leaves. Common 

 on newly cleared woodland, especially where the ground has been burned 

 over. Europe, Asia, America, north and north-west. 



Stem. — Slender, erect, two to four feet high. 

 Leaves. — Alternate, narrow, lanceolate, nearly entire. 

 i?/owew.— Magenta-pink, rarely white, in a terminal showy spike, 

 each blossom set upon the summit of a long slender ovary. 



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