40 ROSA RUBELLA. 
25. ROSA rubella. 
R. armis confertis zqualibus, fructu elongato pendulo. 
R. pendula Roth. germ. 2. 561. 
R. alpina Pall. ross. 61. 
R. rubella Eng! bot. t. 2521. Smith’? in Rees in 1. 
Woods! in act. linn, 12. 177. 
R. polyphylla Willd. enum. suppl. 37. 
@ melanocarpa fructu nigro-fusco breviore. 
Hab. in Anglia, Smith, Winch; Germania, (Roth) ; 
Sibiria copios? ab Uralensi jugo usque in Dayu- 
riam: in campis Isetensibus: ad Obum, Irtin et 
Jeniscam, (Pallas). (v. v. c. et s. sp.) 
Branches erect, reddish, 3 or 4 feet high, covered 
all over as far as the extremities with nearly equal 
weak setze and prickles. Stipule dilated towards their 
extremities, eroded at the edge and fringed with glands, 
naked ; petioles sparingly glandular, without hairs, as 
are the leaflets, which are 7-11, almost flat, oval, 
pointed, simply serrated, or neatly so, dark green 
above, paler beneath. Flowers solitary without bracteze, 
pale or deep red; peduncles hispid; tube of the calyx 
less so; sepals erect, entire, rough, shorter than the 
etals, which are concave and emarginate; disk not 
thickened. Fruit pendulous, long, ovate, scarlet, 
crowned by the converging, shorter sepals. 
This is probably one of the things confounded by 
Linnzus under the name of pendulina. Of Dr. Roth’s 
—- there can be no doubt, as there is no other 
uropean Rose any way answering to his character. I 
am also persuaded that Pallas had this chiefly in view 
when describing his R. alpina, although it is possible 
he had the true plant in contemplation also. 
of it he says, it varies according to situation with 
