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and R. scotica (Miller) are synonyms. It is marked by its dwarf erect habit, copious very 

 irregular prickles, small flowers, simply serrated leaflets, white flowers varying to pink and 

 yellow, simple calyx-segments, and globose purplish black fruit. R. myriacantlia, D.C., a 

 native of the South of France, differs mainly from pimpinellifolia by its pilose leaves, the 

 Himalayan R. Webbiana by its yellow prickles, and R. rubella by its re'd flowers and red fruit. 

 R. Sabini, wild in Britain, with many varieties, is intermediate between pimpinellifolia and 

 villosa, and R. Jiibei~nica, also British, between pimpinellifolia and canina. The American 

 Rosa blanda of Aiton (R. frasdnifolia, Seringe) has reddish branches, armed with pale slender 

 aciculi and setae, broad gland-ciliated stipules, 7-9 oblong simply serrated leaflets, downy on the 

 ribs beneath, large red flowers with a short naked peduncle, entire leaf -pointed sepals and 

 small globose fruit, crowned by the connivent sepals. It flowers the earliest of all the United 

 States Roses. Closely allied to this is the Old World R. acicularis (Lindl.), and its variety 

 R. carelica of Fries. 



The Himalayan Roses are represented in this group by R. macrophylla (Lindl.), which has 

 very large acute leaflets, large bright red flowers, bristly pedicels, very long sepals, and' large 

 bright red hips. R. alpina (Linn.) the Alpine Rose, frequent both in the Alps and Pyrenees, 



Fig. 69. ROSA PIMPINELLIFOLIA. 



is a handsome species, with many varieties. The prickles when present are slender and 

 irregular, but they are often altogether absent. The leaflets are thin, doubly serrated, and 

 whitish beneath, the flowers bright red, the sepals simple with a leafy point, and the bright 

 red hip, in the most characteristic form, is flask-shaped and pendulous. The Boursault Rose 

 (R. reclinata, Red.) is a hybrid between alpina and indica. To this group also belong R. 

 hemisphcerica (Herm.), (R. sulphurea, Ait.), the double yellow or Sulphur Rose, well known 

 in gardens for its beauty and intractability. It is an erect bush four or five feet high, with 

 copiovis irregular prickles, glaucous obovate leaflets and large transparent yellow flowers. It 

 was introduced from the Levant in 1629, and is known in gardens only in a double state, but no 

 doubt the rare oriental R. Rapini (Boiss.) is the same species in its single uncultivated condition. 

 R. hispida (Sims), (R. lutescens, Pursh), with solitary pale yellow flowers and large ovate 

 purplish -black fruits, is probably a variety of pimpinellifolia. An interesting new dwarf 

 yellow-flowered Rose, resembling spinosissima in habit, was discovered lately by Dr Aitchison 

 in Afghanistan, and has been named after Mrs Aitchison, Rosa Ecce. It has flowered copiously 

 in the rockery at Kew this present year. There are two small-flowered yellow Roses in Central 



