The Alpine Rose 



(ROSA ALPINA) 



The Alpine Rose or Dog-Rose must not be confounded 

 with the Alpenrose. The resemblance is only in the names, 

 for the Alpenrose so much beloved by the Swiss is really a 

 rhododendron and quite a different plant. The Alpine Rose 

 is a shrub sometimes 8 or lo feet high, and only a single 

 branch is shown in the photograph. It is found on the 

 borders of mountain woods and in bushy places, from the 

 lower slopes up to about 7000 feet, and flowers in May, 

 June, and July. The leaves consist of seven to eleven leaflets, 

 and there are broad stipules at the base of each leaf. The 

 sweet-scented flowers are of a rich rose-red colour. The sepals 

 are exceptionally long and project beyond the petals; this is 

 especially noticeable in the bud. The fruit or hip is flask- 

 shaped and rather narrowed at the base. Thorns are as a 

 rule absent from the flowering branches, but are generally 

 to be found on the lower and younger shoots, which point 

 downwards. Sometimes they are absent altogether. The 

 Alpine Rose is found pretty abundantly in the mountain 

 woods of Southern and Central Europe, but does not extend 

 to the North. Thus it grows in the Pyrenees, Auvergne, 

 the Balkans, and in one part of the Black Forest. 



The Dog-Roses are phenomenally diflicult to distinguish 

 from one another, and as many as fifty Swiss species are 



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