ROSA GALLICA. 69 
R. austriaca Crantz. austr. 86. Poll. palat. 50. 
R. olympica Donn! cant. ed. 8. 170. 
y arvina, foliis utrinque nudis, 
R. arvina Krock. siles. 2.150. Rau enum. 106. 
Hab. in sepibus circa Montalbanum, (Gaterau); du- 
-mosis circa Walzenberg, (Wibel); 6 circa Gene- 
vam—frequens in collibus herbidis siccioribus, im- 
primis ad sylvas et fruticetis Austrie, Jacquin; 
Pedemontii, (4ll.); Taurize et Caucasi Iberici, 
(Bieb.) ; y ad margines agrorum prope Retzbach, 
Rau). (v. v.c. et s. sp. herb. Banks.) 
Since R. pumila of Jacquin is to be considered as 
the wild state of this species, it ought perhaps to have 
been placed first rather than as a variety. In that 
case, however, the well-known name of gallica must 
have been given up for another, the knowledge of 
which scarcely extends beyond the country in which it 
grows wild. | 
_ Switzerland and Austria produce it in the greatest 
abundance, but it has also been found in Asia by Bie- 
berstein. Rau informs us that in the vicinity of 
Wurtzburg it grows so copiously as to injure the corn 
exceedingly by its creeping roots, like Rubus cesius. 
It is better known in our gardens by Donn’s name of 
olympica, while the name pumila is improperly applied 
to R. majalis. 
The numerous double varieties known under the 
names of the Giant, Velvet, Bishop, &c. Roses are of 
the most exquisite beauty, and would be unrivalled in 
the vegetable world if accompanied by the fragrance 
which characterizes less brilliant species. The most 
splendid of them all is the Tuscany Rose, of which the 
late Mr. Sydenham Edwards left an excellent figure, 
which will soon appear in the Botanical Register. 
The Rosa arvina of Krocker’s Flora Silesiaca differs, 
as Rau himself confesses, in little except having a 
smooth tube to the calyx and naked leaves. 
