Fuchsia

so named from the diseoverer, Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist. More than 50 species are known; most from the warmer parts of America, Mexico, Peru, Chile, etc., except two from New Zealand. These beautiful plants are common in gardens, conservatories, and flower ps in windows. The hybrids generated by intercro ing them now amount to some hundreds.; Fuel, any combustible substance which is used for the production of heat. In this extended sense of the term, alcohol, wax, tallow, coal-gas, oil, and other inflammable bodies which are occasionally used, especially in the chemical laboratory, as sources of heat as well as light, might be included under it. But the term fuel is more properly limited to coal, coke, charcoal, wood, and a few other substances, which are our common sources of heat, and as such are burnt in grates, stoves, fireplaces, and furnaces. In this country, as in England, coal, from its abundance and cheapne , is the fuel commonly employed; but in other countries, as France, Germany, etc., wood is chiefly used, either in its original state or in the form of charcoal.