38 ROSA ALPINA. 
R. pygmza Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 397? 
R. pyrenaica 6 Smith in Rees in 1. 
Hab. in alpibus Austriz, (Jacq.); Gallize australis 
montosis, Gouan. Decand.; Silesiz, (Krocker) ; 
Bohemiz, (Pohl); Delphinatus, (Villars); sed 
preecipue Helvetize copiosissimé Hooker ; ubi alti- 
tudinem 6000 pedum attingit, nec infra 2600 inve- 
nitur, (Wahlenb.): in montibus Carpathicis ad 
Fagi limites, Helvetize Abietis (vix ultra) crescere 
desinit, (Wahl.). (v. v. c. et s. sp. comm. cel. 
Hooker.) 
Seven or eight feet high. Branches nearly erect, 
greenish brown, usually with a glaucous hue, unarmed, 
or (very rarely) furnished with a few weak prickles at 
the very base of the rootshoots ; and these have been 
noticed to exist even on the branches. Stipula narrow, 
dilated at the end, naked, fringed with glands; petioles 
with scarcely any hairs, densely glandular and seti- 
gerous ; leaflets 5-9, of a thin substance, ovate, acute 
at each end, doubly and coarsely serrated, naked, the 
rib beneath sometimes rough with minute prickles. 
Flowers erect, blush coloured, solitary ; peduncles un- 
armed, or hispid; tube of the calyx smooth or hispid, 
ovate, very long; sepals erect, narrow, simple, with a 
long point, dilated at the end which extends beyond 
the petals, on the outside hairy and naked, or rough if 
the tube be so; petals obcordate, concave; disk de- 
pressed, broad; styles villous, distinct. Fruit orange- 
red, oblong or obovate, with a long neck, crowned by 
the converging sepals, generally pendulous. 
I believe most authors are agreed about the greater 
art of the numerous synonyms adduced to this plant. 
ts great abundance in the countries where it grows, 
and the various situations in which it has been found, 
have led many into the error of forming as many species 
out of it as it assumes appearances. Thus R. hybrida 
of Villars is chiefly characterized by its entire petals ; 
lagenaria of the same author rests upon the authority 
of a single plant found in the district of Embrun, 
