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purple hue and quite smooth. The flowers are very handsome, particularly in the bud, when they look like the 
drop of a coral ear-ring. The plant is a garden production, and was raised from seeds of F’. conica about the year 
1830. It is very nearly hardy, and if planted in the open border it will flower freely during the summer and 
autumn, and though it will be killed down to the ground by severe frost in winter, it will shoot up again the 
following spring with extraordinary vigour. It grows equally well in almost every soil and situation, and is quite 
uninjured by the smoke of London. 

10.—FUCHSIA DISCOLOR Lindl, THE PORT FAMINE FUCHSIA. 
Synonyme.—F, Lowei Hort. Leaves in threes, longer than the petioles, ovate-lanceolate, denticulate, 
Encravines.—Bot. Mag., t. 5498; Bot. Reg., t. 1805. somewhat keeled. Flowers much longer than the leaves. Stamens 
Speciric Cuaracter. — Branches very short, densely compact, | exserted. Stigma oval. 
Description, &c.—This species is decidedly the hardiest of all the kinds of Fuchsia, as it is found in its native 
country in a temperature of 36°. Even in Scotland, the Port Famine Fuchsia soon becomes a large bush, putting 
forth innumerable shoots every season, which are seldom injured even by the most severe frosts they ever meet 
with in this country. The plant is a native of Port Famine in the Falkland Islands, and it was introduced in 1835. 
11.—FUCHSIA COCCINEA Ait. THE SCARLET FUCHSIA. 
Eneravine.—Bot. Mag., t. 97. 
Sreciric Cuaracter.—Leaves opposiic, oval, denticulate. Petals obovate, obtuse. 
Description, &c.—This was the first species of the genus that was introduced, as it was brought to England 
from Chili in the year 1788. The first person who had it for sale was Mr. Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, and as 
he sold the plants at a guinea each, it is not difficult to imagine that he made a large sum of money by them. It 
was at first supposed that the plant.would live only in a hothouse, but it was gradually found to succeed in a green- 
house, a cold pit, and the open air, though this species is still far more tender than some of the other kinds, and 
is easily killed by frost. 
12.—FUCHSIA RADICANS Miers. THE ROOTING FUCHSIA. 
Synonymes.— F. integrifolia S¢. Hilaire; FF. affinis Camb. ; |  Speciric CuaracTer.—Stem prostrate, rooting. Leaves elliptic, 
F, pyrifolia Prest. | acuminate, slightly denticulate, glabrous, cordate at the base. Flowers 
Eneravines.— Bot. Mag., t. 3948; Bot. Reg., for 1841, t. 66; | axillary, twin, pendulous. Petals wedge-shaped, longer than the tube 
Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. ix., p. 27; and our jig. 4, in Pl. 27. of the calyx. Stigma capitate. Berry subrotund, oblong. 
Description, &c.—This is a long trailing shrub, the stems of which are much branched, often attaining a 
length of twenty feet and upwards, being about half-an-inch in diameter, of a pale brown, and rough from the 
irregular splitting of the several coats of bark. The younger branches are purplish and smooth. The joints on 
the large stem after the first year begin to throw out roots, or, rather, stoloniferous shoots, which take root upon the 
trees to which the plant clings for support. The calyx is of a bright scarlet, and the tubular part is slightly con- 
tracted in the middle, The stamens, which are of a deep red, are considerably longer than the rest of the flower, 
four of them being much longer than the others. Mr. Miers observes in the “ Botanical Register,” that he “ was 
greatly struck with this beautiful species when he first met with it in the Organ Mountains in 1829, clinging in 
long festoons from a very tall tree, and exhibiting abundance of its brilliant flowers.” This beautiful plant is a 
native of Brazil, just within the tropics, but as it grows at an elevation of about three thousand feet above the level 




