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beneath, greyish-white. A. alpina, L. (including Hop- 

 peana, Rchb.) ; leaf-segments narrow, leaves shining 

 with silky hairs ; a pretty and very common alpine plant. 

 A. pentaphyllea, L. (including cuneata, Gaud.); leaves 

 only slightly hairy, the three middle segments deeply in- 

 cised ; very high ; Switzerland, Tirol, Pyrenees. 



13. POTERIUM, L. 



Calyx 4-lobed, coloured ; petals o ; stamens numerous ; 

 carpels 1-3. Not alpine. 



P. Sanguisorba, L. (dictyocarpum, Spach), Smaller 

 Burnet ; P. muricatum, Spach ; and P. officinale, Hook. 

 (SanguisorbaofficinaliS) L.), Greater Burnet; distinguished 

 from one another by very minute character^ ; are abun- 

 dant in damp lowland meadows. 



Tribe R.OSE/E. Calyx 5-lobed ; petals 5 ; stamens 

 numerous; carpels numerous, developing into achenes 

 enclosed within the fleshy calyx-tube. 



14. ROSA, L. 



Flowers large, handsome; stem often prickly; leaves 

 pinnate, with stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk; calyx- 

 tube ultimately coriaceous or very fleshy, brightly col- 

 oured, and enclosing the achenes. 



But few species of Rose are alpine. The most readily 

 distinguished of these are : R. dnnamomea, L., in which 

 the branches are reddish-brown, and the stipules of the 

 barren branches have erect edges, almost conniving in 

 a tube, the prickles in pairs beneath the stipules; wet 

 places ; Engadine, Valais, Winterthur, &c. R. alpina, L. 



