FU CHSIA MACROSTE'MON. 
Variety Discolor. 
LONG-STAMENED FUCHSIA. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Falkld.Islnds. 
3 feet. 
July & Aug- 
Perennial. 
in 1830. 
No. 935. 
Fuchsia is named after Leonard Fuchsius, a 
German physician and botanist of the 16th century. 
Fuchsius was an eminent man in his day, worthy 
of the splendid genus of plants which his name re- 
presents. He was Professor of Medicine at Ingold- 
stadt, where he practised with great success, and 
published several medical and botanical works. 
This was at a period when there existed much 
religious excitement in Germany, and Fuchsius, 
having attached himself to the Lutheran party, 
experienced inconvenience, and even some perse- 
cution — the fate of all warm-hearted men, who 
zealously advocate any religious opinions, however 
righteous, reasonable, or unobtrusive on the belief 
of others, they may happen to be. Fuchsius, sub- 
sequently, from the entreaties of the Duke of Wir- 
temburg, settled at the university of Tubingen, 
where he long resided, universally respected, as an 
eminent scholar, physician, and exemplary advo- 
cate of the new faith of that period. The Historia 
Plantarum of Fuchsius, published at Bazil, in 
1542, has often been referred to as possessing the 
best wood cuts of that period. We have given this 
