Onagrariee—Fuchsia. 201 
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 hei baceous plants, while one or 
two succeed well trained against a wall, in the more favoured 
localities. £. fulgens (4g. 108) is one of the tenderer species 
AX : 
Fig. 108, Fuchsia fulgens. (4 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. globisa (fig. 109).—This variety is readily known by the 
globular form assumed by the incurved sepals, and is probably 
a variety of F. macrostima, syn. Ff. Magellénica. 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 
gracilis, has nearly sessile leaves and other differences, and is 
now very rare in British gardens. Its native country is pro- 
bably Brazil. F. Riccartoni is perhaps the hardiest of all the 
