FUCHSIA

(ft’shi-a; named after the discoverer, Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist), a genus of beautiful fiowering shrubs, natives of South America, Mexico, and New Zealand, nat. ord. Onagracez, characterized by having a funnel-shaped, coloured, deciduous, four-parted calyx, sometimes with a very long tube; four petals set in the mouth of the calyx-tube, and alternating with its segments; eight exserted stamens, and a long style with a capitate stigma. This is one of our most common decorative greenhouse plants, while the hardy varieties out of doors in the open border form an important feature with their wonderful profusion of fiowers.