ed
_wild Sage_; the flowers, which are very brilliant, are succeeded by
roundish berries, which, when ripe, turn black, having a pulpy covering
over a single hard seed.

It is readily propagated by cuttings.

Different plants vary greatly in the colour of their blossoms, and the
prickliness of their stalks; the prickles are seldom found on the young
shoots.

This plant will bear to be placed abroad in the warmest summer months,
the rest of the year it requires artificial heat. It is usually placed
in the dry stove, to which, as it is seldom without flowers, it imparts
great brilliancy.

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FUCHSIA COCCINEA. SCARLET FUCHSIA.

_Class and Order._

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 1-phyllus, coloratus, corollifer, maximus. _Petala_ 4, parva,
_Bacca_ infera, 4-locularis, polysperma.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

FUCHSIA _coccinea_ foliis oppositis ovatis denticulatis; petalis
obovatis, obtusis. _Hort. Kew._

THILCO _Feuillee it. 3. p. 64. t. 47._

[Illustration: No 97]

The present plant is a native of _Chili_, and was introduced to the
royal gardens at Kew, in the year 1788, by Capt. FIRTH; it
takes the name of _Fuchsia_ from _Fuchs_ a German Botanist of great
celebrity, author of the _Historia Stirpium_ in _folio_, published in
1542, containing five hundred and sixteen figures in wood; and which,
though mere outlines, express the objects they are intended to
represent, infinitely better than many laboured engravings of more
modern times.

Every person who can boast a hot-house will be anxious to possess the
_Fuchsia_, as it is not only a plant of peculiar beauty, but produces
its rich pendant blossoms through most of the summer; the petals in the
centre of the flower are particularly deserving of notice; they somewhat
resemble a small roll of the richest purple-coloured ribband.

Though this plant will not succeed well in the winter, nor be easily
propagated unless in a stove, it will flower very well during the summer
months, in a good greenhouse or hot-bed frame, and though at present
from its novelty it bears a high price, yet as it is readily propagated,
both by layers, cuttings, and seeds, it will soon be within the purchase
of every lover of plants.

Mr. LEE, of Hammersmith, we understand first had this plant for
sale.

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TROPAEOLUM MINUS. SMALL TROPAEOLUM, OR INDIAN-CRESS.

_Class and Order._

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic