ZAUSCHNERIA (named after H. Zauschner, a German botanist). ORD. Onagrarieae. A monotypic genus. The species is a handsome, small, half-hardy shrub, thriving in any light, but not on heavy soil. It may be multiplied by cuttings, made from young side shoots, in September, inserted in pots of sandy soil, and placed in a frame. If wintered in a cool house or frame, the young plants may be transferred to the open ground in spring, where they will grow and flower profusely the summer and autumn following. Division of old plants in spring, and seeds, are also available methods of increase. The latter should be sown, about March, on a gentle hotbed. In sheltered places and warm situations, this desirable plant proves itself sufficiently hardy to live outside in winter; but it is safer to propagate a young stock annually than to trust too much to its hardiness. ZAUSCHNERIA californica (Californian).* Californian Fuchsia; Humming-bird's Trumpet. Fl. bright red, in loose spikes terminating the branches, large, erect, spreading, and with small, leafy bracts; calyx coloured, much produced, funnel-shaped, globose-inflated at base, the segments spreading; petals four, obcordate, or rather deeply two-cleft, rather longer than the calyx lobes; stamens eight, slightly exserted. Summer and autumn. l. crowded, linear-lanceolate, narrow, entire or denticulate, sessile, canescently pubescent, the lower ones opposite, those of the branches alternate. h. 1ft. California and Mexico, 1847. (F. d. S. 404; P. M. B. xv. 195.) ZAUSCHNERIA californica latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. rather smaller; calyx dull red. l. rather broader, and, as well as the branches, villous-canescent. (B. M. 4493.)