ROSA ALPINA. 39 
among the woods of Boscodon, with longer fruit than 
usual; and in the R. biflora of Krocker not a single 
character can be discovered for even the pretence of a 
species. Sir James Smith rightly removes the var. @ 
of the Hortus Kewensis from this, but is unfortunate 
in the place he assigns it. 
My variety 6 may be known by its hispid fruit. M. 
Decandolle, who considered it a species in the first 
part of his Flore Francaise, has retracted that opinion 
in his supplement, where it stands as R. alpina 9. 
Jacquin’s figure, as usual, is excellent. 
Var. y. Under my next species but one I shall 
have occasion to notice Linnzus’s Rosa pendulina. 
This is the plant of his herbarium and of our gardens, 
Its coloured leaves and stem, and disposition to produce 
more leaflets than the common sort, with darker flowers, 
are not sufficient peculiarities to entitle it to rank as a 
species. Nor can I perceive how its fruit, being “ pen- 
dulous, scarlet, smooth and shining, remarkably elon- 
gated, beaked and curved,” will distinguish it from R. 
alpina of the Alps, as is observed in Rees’s Cyclopedia. 
From the characters of Villars and Bellardi, it has 
been generally thought that the R. pimpinellifolia of 
the former and glandulosa of the latter were scarcely 
distinct from alpina. This has been already noticed by 
Sir James Smith, and I have much pleasure in agreeing 
with him on the propriety of uniting them to the same 
species as R. pyrenaica of Gouan. Decandolle has, 
however, in his supplementary volume to the Flore 
Francaise, separated them widely from that plant, and 
I know not on what authority, applied to them a de- 
scription of something evidently belonging to R. rubi- 
ginosa. R. pygmea of the learned author of Flora 
Taurico-Caucasica, to which R. alpina of some index 
of Pallas is quoted, appears to be either the dwarf 
mountain state of that species or a variety of rubella, 
on account of his describing the “ swmmi ramuli flori- 
Feri hispiduli.”. However this may be, I cannot doubt 
the alpina of Pallas’s Flora Rossica belonging to the 
next species. . . 
