Tas. 6724. 
ROSA atprna. 
Native of the Alps and Pyrenees. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Roszx. 
Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa (Pimpinellifoliee) alpina ; fruticosa, erecta, ramis gracilibus inermibus inferne 
aculeis tenuissimis sparsis instructis, foliis patentibus opacis, stipulis planis 
cum petiolo et rachi glanduloso-ciliatis, foliolis 5-13 ellipticis ovatis v. oblongis 
utrinque acutis v. acuminatis duplicato-serratis subtus cesiis, floribus sub- 
solitariis roseis, pedunculis glanduloso-setosis, sepalis caudato-elongatis conni- 
ventibus apicibus quandoque dilatatis serratis, petalis obcordatis concavis, 
' disco obsoleto, stigmatum capitulo vix exserto, fructu obovoideo swpe elongato 
rubro levi v. glanduloso-setoso. 
R. alpina, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, vol. i. p. 703; Jacq. Fl, Aust. vol. iii. p. 43, t. 279 ; 
DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 611; Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 265; Redouté Les 
Roses, t. 113 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 424. 
R. alpina, var. vestita, Gren. et Godr. Flor. France, vol. i. p. 556. 
R. inermis, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8, n. 6. ; 
R. pyrenaica, Gowan Iii. vol. iii. t. 19; Desegl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xv. 
Pp 288, x) 
This, which is one of the most elegant of the single 
Roses, though introduced so long ago as 1683, is much less 
cultivated than it deserves to be. Lindley, who calls it the 
beautiful ornament of the Alps of Switzerland arid the 
temperate latitudes of Europe, regards it as the type of a_ 
small group of species with little affinity to each other, 
except in the circumstance of being almost universally 
_ deprived of prickles. Seringe, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 
enumerates sixteen varieties of it, differing chiefly in the 
amount of glandular hairs; and it is that called pyrenazca, 
_ having the calyx and peduncles hispid, to which the form 
here figured is referable. It has a multitude of synonyms. 
Botanically it belongs to a section of the genus which con- 
tains the Hedge and Scotch roses (R. sepium, BR. spino- 
sissima, &c.), characterized by the connivent permanent 
_ sepals, absence of disk in the flower, numerous leaflets, and 
_ usually the absence of bracts. 
_ NOVEMBER Is7, 1883. 
