FUCHSIA MACROSTEMA. Var. Globosa. 
GLOBE-FLOWERED FUCHSIA. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRARIA2. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Origin. 
Variety. 
2 feet. 
June, Oct. 
Shrub. 
Unknown. 
No. 533. 
The generic name. Fuchsia, is derived from that 
of a celebrated physician and botanist of Germany, 
Leonard Fuchs, or Fuchsia, who was born in 1501. 
He is principally known to the botanical world, 
through his Historia Plantarum, published at Bazil, 
in 1542, a folio volume, containing upwards of five 
hundred wood-cuts, which are said to possess con- 
# siderable merit. In the history of his time Fuchsia 
is known as a zealous follower of Luther, which in- 
troduced him to Ulrick, Duke of Wirtemberg, under 
whose auspices he lived many years at Tubingen, 
and there died, in 1560. Macrostema alludes to 
the lengthened stamens of this species. 
This very beautiful variety of a most beautiful 
genus of plants, alike valuable in the greenhouse 
and open garden, has by many botanists been con- 
sidered a distinct species, and called Fuchsia glo- 
bosa; it certainly, however, is simply a seedling 
variety. We think with Mr. D. Don, that it may 
have originated from macrostema ; it is not, how- 
ever, certain that macrostema itself is more than a 
garden variety. In the British Flower Garden, Mr. 
Don says “The proneness to vegetation, evident in 
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