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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



ONAGBACZJJS. 



Exogens, with flowers having either no petals, or generally only 

 four, inserted into the throat of the calyx ; the latter being tubular, 

 and four-lobed. Stamens four or eight, inserted into the calyx. 

 Ovary two or four-celled, generally crowned by a disc. Leaves 

 simple, entire or toothed. — Herbaceous plants or shrubs ; chiefly 

 natives of the temperate regions. 



FUCHSIA. 



Gen. Char. (Octandria Monogynia.) Calyx funnel-shaped, co- 

 loured, falling off ; petals four, in the throat of the calyx, alter- 

 nate with its segments • nectary an eight-furrowed gland ; stigma 

 capitate ; berry oblong, obtuse, four-cornered, four-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



This very interesting genus, named after Euchs, a Ger- 

 man botanist, has been known in this country about eighty 

 years ; the first introduced was from Chili, the F. coccinea ; 

 this and several others have now become hardy, and very 

 many varieties have been raised by the care and attention of 

 cultivators, the flowers differing more or less from the origi- 

 nal Chilian species, some having the tube and divisions of 

 the calyx rose-coloured, with purple corolla, or even almost 

 black ; others with the calyx white, and the corolla purple 



