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A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.

The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.

in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

o, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.

is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.