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§; 2. Leaves opposite, obovate or spatulate, long-petioled, with small and niarhj 

 sessile flowers in their axils : steins creeping or floating. ' 



L. pall!LStris. Common in ditches and shallow water : smooth, with no 

 petals, or small and reddish ones when the plant grows out of water, and oblong 

 obscurolv 4-sided pods longer than the very short calyx-lobes. 



L. natans. From N. Carolina S. : larger than the foregoing, and with 

 yellow petals as long as the calyx-lobes, the pods tapering to the base. 



§ 3. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, with a long-peduncled flower in the axil 

 of some of the upper ones : stems creeping in the mud. 



Ii. arcu&ta. From coast of Virginia S. : a small and smooth delicate 

 plant, with oblanceolate leaves shorter than the peduncle, yellow petals longer 

 than the slender calyx-lobes, and club-shaped somewhat curved pod. 



10. LOFSiZIA. (Named for T. Lopez, an early Spanish naturalist.) 



L. raceindsa. Cult, sparingly, from Mexico : a slender, branching, nearly 

 smooth plant, with alternate ovate or lance-oblong leaves on slender petioles, the 

 branches terminated with loose racemes of small rose-pink or sometimes white 

 flowers (only \' in diameter), on slender pedicels from the axil of leafy bracts, 

 produced all summer, followed by very small round pods, (i) ■> 



11. FUCHSIA. (Named for i. Fucfc, an early German botanist.) Well- 

 known ornamental tender shrubby plants, or even trees, chiefly natives of the 

 Andes from Mexico to Fuegia, mostly smooth, with opposite or temately 

 whorled leaves. The species -in cultivation, now greatly mixed and varied, 

 chiefly come from the following. 



§ 1. Shokt-fi-owered Fuchsias, or Ladies' Eardkops; with the lobes of 

 the normalLji red calux longer than the tupe and titan, the petals ; the tatter 

 ndrmall/l violet or blue, oiovate and retuse, convolute around the base of 

 the. projecting filaments and still longer style : flowers hanging on long 

 peduncles from the axils of the leaves. 



I", coccinea, or F. glob6sa. Low, the rather small scarlet flowers with 

 globular or ovoid calyx-tube between the ovary and the lobes, which also form 

 a globular bud and hardly spread after opening ; leaves sliort-petioled. 



I". Magell&liica, from S. Chili and Fuegia : less tender, with tube of the 

 calyx bell-shaped and much shorter than the lobes ; leaves short-petioled or the 

 upper sessile. 



I", macrost^mma, from Chili ; leaves on slender petioles ; calyx-tube 

 oblong or short-cylindrical, more or less shorter than the spreading lobes. — 

 These species now greatly varied in color ; some varieties with calyx white or 

 light and the petals deeply colored, some with the reverse ; also double-flowered, 

 the petals being multiplied. 



§ 2. Long-flowered Fuchsias; with trumpet-shaped oi:.slightly funnel-shaped 

 tube of the calyx 2' -3' long, very much longer than the spreading .lobes, 

 which little exceed the acute or pointed somewhat spreading petals ; stamens 

 and style little projecting : flowers crowded into a rather close drooping 

 raceme or corymt at the end of the branches : leaves large, 5' - 7' long. 



F. flilgens, from Mexico : smooth, with ovate somewhat heart-shaped leaves, 

 and scarlet flowers, the lance-ovate calyx-lobes often tinged with green. 



F. corymbiflbra, from Peru : mostly pubescent, with lance-oblong and 

 taper-pointed almost entire leaves, and red flowers, the lanceolate calyx-lobss 

 and the lance-oblong petals taper-pointed, at length widely spreading. 



§ 3. Pavicled Fuchsias ; with small flowers erect in a naked and compound 

 terminal panicle or cluster: lobes of the caiyx and petals widely spreading. 



F. arbor6seens, Tree F., from Mexico : a stout shrub rather than tree, 

 With oblong or lance-oblong entire loaves acute at both ends and usually 

 whorled ; flowers light rose-color, ^' lotlg, with naiTow oblong calyx-lobes, and 

 petals rather longer than the tube, about as long as the stamens and style. 



