NAT. ORDER. 
"OnagraricB. 
PUCHSIA GLOBOSA. BALLOOK-FLOWEEED FUCHSIA. 
Class Fill, OcTANDRiA. Order X Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, tubular-funnel form, colored, deciduous. Petals, 
four, in the throat of the calyx, alternate with its seg-ments: 
nectary an eig-ht-furrowed gland. Stamens, eig-ht. Berry, ob- 
long-, obtuse, four-cornered. Mowers, more often naked, red, 
rarely white. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, opposite, petioled, ovate, acute, slig-htly serrated, 
smooth. Flowers, on long filiform peduncles, pendulous. Calyx^ 
of four scarlet sepals, united into a long tube, broad throat, much 
larger than the included. Berry, purple. 
The difficulty of discriminating these different kinds of Fuchsia, 
now so common in our gardens, of which Fuchsia macrostemma may 
be considered the original type, has been felt by every one who has 
turned his attention to the subject ; and this difficulty has been in- 
creased by cultivation and the skill of the horticulturist in fertilizing 
one kind with the farina of another; so that what few characters 
were supposed to exist to entitle them to rank as species, are, of ne- 
cessity, obliterated. Closely allied as the present is to that which 
goes under the name of Fuchsia gracilis, it will, nevertheless, we 
think, be found distinct; and possesses one strong claim to our atten- 
tion, inasmuch as it is a native of the most southern portions of our 
continent. 
Propagation and Culture. The elegance of the flowers, and 
foliage of all the species of Fuchsia are well known to every lover of 
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