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Such as are partial to this tribe, will no doubt wish to have this species in their collection; the blossoms are pretty, and the foliage is singular, but it remains but a short time in flower.

It is readily propagated by cuttings.

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LANTANA ACULEATA. p.r.i.c.kLY LANTANA.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 4-dentatus obsolete. _Stigma_ uncinato-refractum. _Drupa_ nucleo 2-loculari.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LANTANA _aculeata_ foliis oppositis, caule aculeato ramoso spicis hemisphaericis. _Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 566._

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According to MILLER, this species grows naturally in _Jamaica_, and most of the other Islands in the _West-Indies_, where it is called _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 p.r.i.c.kliness of their stalks; the p.r.i.c.kles 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.

_Cla.s.s 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._