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hairy down ; the upper side is smooth. Mountain-pasturages 

 of the Jura and the Alps : Le Reculet, the Dole, Mont 

 Saleve, Zermatt, Sion, Maderaner Thai, Pilatus, Great 

 and Little St. Bernard. It will bear transplanting well. 



30. Rosa. 



(PLATE XVIII.) 



We do not place the Queen of Flowers among the typical 

 plants of Switzerland. It may seem strange to say this, 

 when no less than twenty-seven species o£ them are given 

 by one of the latest botanists, and many varieties under 

 some of the species. There is no doubt they have been too 

 much divided. Of course, they are plentiful on the lower 

 grounds, in woods and thickets, and a few climb higher; 

 but we cannot expect to meet with them where the stern 

 mountains lift their rugged forms to the skies. Those who 

 would study roses should notice their colour, the shape of 

 their fruit, whetherjthe plant is smooth, downy, or rough, the 

 shape of the thorns (whether curved or straight), the number 

 of the leaflets, and whether the notches on them are double 

 or single. Gaudin classifies the Swiss roses thus. After 

 mentioning R. arvensis and R. stylosa, as species distin- 

 guished by having their styles united in a column, he 

 divides the others in the following way : — First, those which 



