oa 
flowers, which, as we 
he 
FUC 
Ruiz and Pavon . Peruv. v. 3. 88. t. 324. f. 3. Nahufia 
coccinea ; SS gt Ic. t. 21. T’hilco; Feuillée Voy. 
- 47° | Hower-ftalks axillary, Ion er than the 
orled, ftalked, 
n mountainous m 
flowering from June to April. Soru 
feet high, pe ae in “Ail its parts, ver 
Leaves two or three, rarely four, together, fearcely above 
an Sach, or inchand half, in length, rather diftantly toothed ; 
aler and fhining beneath. Flower-/lalks longer than the 
eaves. Calyx {carlet, witha much fhorter tube than any 
the preceding. Petals violet, obovate and blunt. Stamens 
and flyle fcarlet, hanging far out of the flower. Berry dark 
urple. The to be fometimes five-cleft 
ver feen an inftance, 
an error, orig ginating 
The people of Chili call this fhrub “"T?hilco 
and Chilco, and ufe it, in decoGtion or infufion, as a cooling 
medicine in inflammatory fevers. The wood is excellent for 
ack. A plant of this {pecies, gig in a dead 
o Kew gar- 
h 
den, from Lifbon, and it was t have ean from the 
razils. As the {pring advanced, it began to fprout, and 
foon put fo ye its exquifitely beauti ae : owers, to the ad- 
i it. vb 
o behel Itisn ecome very com- 
mon, being eafily: encreafed by cating a oa iving equally 
vell in a ftove, green-houfe or fra ot ftands our 
Lee in the open ground, aie ve jen ine ifh, but as 
they fhoot up again, and flower with aden luxuriance in 
the fummer and autumn, this is perhaps t eft mode of 
Ruiz and Pavon Fl. Peru . 88. 
.—Flower- ftalks axillar ty cangee ea the ee 
Leaves oppofite or whorled, elliptic-lanceolate, 
nearly as 
ich it 
of its 7 aves, its fcarle Bea more a eb 
TJ . F. Tycio otdes. Anc ndr. Repo 
xilla ary, fhorter than the “Weave, pie Leaves feat- 
tered gr ee peal wavy. ‘Teeth of the calyx as long 
—Native of the north-weft coaft of 
e it was ae agar to our gardens, 
according to Mr. Andrews, in 1796. 
than any of the above defcribed, aon ae inelegant in it 
as the Pee r fome ea Saae 
—Flower-ftalks 
to . FT xis of a de ill or pale red, and re- 
aetoge for being me ae Petals ene about as lor 
s the ftamens, but fhorter than the ttyle. Berzy blackith. 
than the far 
ier « do ubts whether = fpecies may 
s the figure. of 
~ 123 F. excorticata . n. Suppl. 217. Willd, Sp. Pl, 
ve 340. innera ems ata ; ft." Prod. 
» Flo a ee axillary, fhorter than the aes drooping. 
Leaves élliptic-lanceolate, toothed, hoary beneath. 
of the calyx fhorter than the tube, {preading. eee . 
New Zealand. A tre? {mooth in allits parts. The ¢rz 
4wo or three sede in dia paces ae fcattered, faked, 
two inches long, varying in , deciduous. Flowers 
larger than in oP Ipebeidey but “fomewbat like them i in the 
hen gatered, thi pant faa withers, its- 
27-)" 
lander to a kind 
Teeth ‘t 
FUC 
colour of the calyx, whofe teeth however are of a fhorter 
pro gh and not reflexed. The feta/s are f{mall, acute, 
deep viole 
e angie {well our lift of eas a 7 multiflora, 
taken up by Wi ce from th anti, InnNZus, 
331, onthe authority of Mu who cere: mentioned 
to him that ca e were ee {pecies of this genus in Mexico 
one with many flowers on a eal the other with re 
flowered eduicea. 
v 
“9 
HISIA Gardening, compe nes plats co the 
ce exotic for the flove; of which the fpecics 
chiefly ae ed are, the thveedleaved — i triph ee 
= the {carlet- foe. ed fuc F. co 
i am sents plant of fm i wa oe the fatter a ‘fheub 
oh ie able fize with beautiful {earlet flov 
Method of Culture —Both thefe plants are ep of being 
increafed by fowing the feeds, by laying the young fhoots 
down, by cuttings ped near = thoots, and even fome- 
times by fuckers talen ots. 
he nee be a in ae filled with good light 
ey {pring plunging them in a bark hot-bed. 
When the plants come up, they muft 2 kept c gis peing gy oc 
cafionally refrefhed with a Hite water. As $ they 
en attained a few acted in height, they fhou ae be care- 
fully fhaken out of the old pots, and after being nicely {c- 
parated, be planted out in feparate {mall pots filled wita the 
ame fort of mould, being replunged in the bark hot-bed, and 
kept well thaded until ne have taken freth root, when they 
fhould have air admitted pretty freely. 
The plants require to be kept warm during. the winter 
- 
feafon. 
The layers, cuttings and fuckers may be laid down or be 
planted out pies the end of the fummer or the beginni: 
u s for the es being occafionally 
watered, and plac edi in the hot-be 
e plants agen be kept in At ftove during the winter 
rien but they m fet out in the green- jet e in the 
r months, ee they will affor ment in 
chert beantiful fearet flowers, as they continue oe a conti~ 
derable length of tim 
FUCHSWINK 5 in Geography, a'town of Silefia, in 
the principality of Neiffe; three miles S. of Patfchkau. ~~ 
FUCINUS Lacus, in Aucient Geography, a lake ‘of 
Italy in the Apennine dade, belonging to he country 
ig 
° 
= 
3 
= 
of the Marfi. It is now called lake Celano, For a parti- 
cular account of it, fee CELANO. 
'FUCUS is vifed for a paint, or compofition, applied” on 
the face, to beautify it, and ee the coi mplexi on. 
* Old women make ufe of faa and pomatums, fo appear 
young. The fucus made with ceruffe is corrofive and per- 
nicious to the fkin 
Pliny fays, that the fucus of the Roman dames was a kind: 
of white oe chalk, brought from Chio and Samos, 
cus Soliant is isa ei ears of take fubli- 
oie in ot repute am the Spaniards o 
Fucus Giganteus, a name ie a by Mr. Bank a Dr. So. 
of fea-weed of an enormous Size, which 
they difcovered in their paflage from Rio it 
the ftrait of Le Maire. The leaves of it were four fect 
s long S> and fome of the ftalks, though not thicker than as 
man’s thumb, above one hundred and twenty. 
Fucus, in Botany, (from $vuxo; a fea ed fome kinds - 
VK 
of aes being uled in Lcolouring, occaficned the Latin 
2 -- word 
