ROSA. 



v. 2. 45. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 208, quoted by Miller iucautioufly 

 for this, may be R. damafcena. 



44. R. rubrifolia. Red-leaved Rofe. Villars Dauph. v. 3. 

 549. Willd. n. 24. Bellardi Append, ad Fl. Pedem. 23. 

 t. 4. (Rofier multiflore ; Reynier Mem. de la Suiffe, v. 1. 

 222. — Fruit roundifli-ovate, fmooth as well as the flower- 

 ftalks. Prickles of the Item and leaf-ftalks hooked. Leaf- 

 lets ovate, fmooth, coloured, limply ferrated. Flowers co- 

 rymbofe, with flieathing dilated brafteas and ftipulas. — 

 Native of the mountains of Switzerland, Dauphiny, and 

 Savoy ; a ftranger to our gardens. The whole plant, 

 branches, leaves, Jlalks, and tube of the calyx, are more or 

 lefs tinged with a vinous red. T\\eflem is ereft and robuft, 

 ten to fifteen feet high, armed with fcattered, diftant, re- 

 curved prickles. Leaflets feven or nine, large, broadly ovate, 

 with llrong fharp ferratures, fmooth on both fides, with nu- 

 merous, parallel, red veins. Stipulas red, fmonth ; the 

 upper ones, near the flowers, much dilated, and replaced 

 immediately by fimilar, but fmaller, bradeas. ' Flowers from 

 three to five, of a fine pink, forming a fhort fmooth corymb. 

 Segments of the calyx almoft entirely fimple, very long and 

 (lender, downy within, fiightly glandular at the edges, each 

 terminating in a long, lanceolate, leafy point. Fruit oval, 

 fmall, fmooth. Villars fays the cultivated plant retains the 

 peculiar red tints of its bark and foliage ; only the iize of the 

 flowers is fomewhat diminifhed. 



45. R. lagenaria. Bottle-fruited Rofe. Villars Dauph. 

 v. 3. 553. Willd. n. 25. — Fruit obovate, beaked, fmooth, 

 pendulous. Stem without prickles. Leaf-llalks rather 

 prickly. Flower-ftalks downy, fomewhat cymofe. Leaf- 

 lets elliptical, doubly ferrated, fmooth as well as the calyx. 



Native of France, in the diftridt of Embrun, among 



the woods of Bofcodon. Villars fays he never met with 

 this fpecies elfewhere. He defcribes it as akin to the fol- 

 lowing, but differing in its large leafy calyx, and the greatly 

 elongated fpindle-fhaped fruit, having a neck like that of a 

 bottle. The Jlem is from three to five feet high, without 

 thorns. Leaflets thin, obtufe. Flotuer-flalks three together, 

 fiightly downy, recurved. We have feen no fpecimen. 



46. R. alpina. Alpine Rofe. Linn. Sp. PI. 703. Willd. 

 n. 26. Ait. n. 27. Villars Dauph. v. 3. 552. Sm. Tour 

 on the Cont. v. 3. 137. 140. Jacq. Aultr. t. 279. Lawr. 

 Rof. t. 30. (R. n. 1107; Hall. Hift. v. 2. 41.) — Fruit 

 ovate, fmooth. Stem without prickles. Leaf-ftalks and 

 flower-ftalks briftly. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, doubly fer- 

 rated, fmooth. — Very common in the alpine thickets of 

 Switzerland, Savoy, Dauphiny, Auftria, &c. flowering 

 from June to Auguft. It has long been cultivated in bo- 

 tanic gardens, but is not one of our popular fpecies, being, 

 though an elegant plant, and remarkable for the want of 

 prickles, lefs itriking than R. pendulina, which is alfo known 

 by the name of " the Rofe without a thorn." The prefent 

 has fmooth, fpreading, fometimes procumbent, ftems and 

 branches, of a (hining deep red, obferved by Jacquin to be 

 occafionally hairy or briftly, but never thorny. Leaflets 

 feven or nine, elliptic-oblong, ufually more than an inch in 

 length, thin, fmooth, doubly and fharply ferrated ; paler 

 beneath, with fome hairs, now and then, on the midrib. 

 Flowers generally folitary, of a rich and elegant rofe-colour, 

 on drooping, red flalhs, clothed with glandular briftles. 

 Calyx downy, with long, fimple, (lender, rather leafy - 

 pointed figments ; its tube generally fmooth, though we 

 have from M. Du Cros, a fpecimen with briftles on that 

 part, as well as en the fegments of the calyx. Fruit pen- 

 dulous, oval, fomewhat beaked, of a fine fcarlet. — Mifs 

 Lawrance's t. 75 cannot poffibly have any relationship to 

 this fpecies ; fee lucida, n. 14. 

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47. R. pyrenaica. Pyrenxan Rofe. Gouan. Illuftr. 31. 

 t. 19. Willd. n. 27. 



/S. R. pimpinellifolia ; Villars Dauph. v. 3. 553. (R. 

 glandulofa ; Bellardi Append, ad Fl. Pedem. 24.) 



Fruit ovate, hifpid as well as the flower-ftalks, and fome- 

 what prickly leaf-ftalks. Stem without prickles. Leaflets 

 elliptical, doubly ferrated, fmooth. — Native of vallies among 

 the Pyrena:an mountains, as well as of Switzerland and Dau- 

 phiny. We are fully perfuaded that the R. pimpinellifolia 

 of Villars is, as he himfelf fuggefts, but a variety of Gouan's 

 pyrenaica, nor can we trace out fufficient marks to defcribe 

 it even as a variety. The glandular edging of the flipulas , 

 on which our worthy friend Bellardi has founded its charac- 

 ter and name, is no lefs evident and conftant in pyrenaica, 

 and even in alpina itfelf ; of which laft indeed we are itrongly 

 inclined to confider the tuppofed fpecies, both of Gouan 

 and Villars, as mere varieties, differing from the ufual kind 

 in their briftly calyx and fruit. The fegments of the calyx 

 are fimple, with more or lefs leafy points in all, nor does 

 Gouan mention any thing that affords a permanent mark of 

 difcrimination between pyrenaica and alpina. 



48. R. pendulina. Smooth Pendulous Rofe. Rofe with- 

 out a thorn. Linn. Sp. PI. 705. Willd. n. 28. Ait. n. 28. 

 Purlh n. 12. Ehrh. Arb. 105. Lawr. Rof. t. 9. (R. fan- 

 guiforbse majoris folio, fruftu longo pendulo ; Dill. Elth. 

 325. t. 245. f. 317.) — Fruit ovate, elongated, fmooth, pen- 

 dulous. Stem and branches fmooth, without prickles. 

 Flower-ftalks and leaf-ftalks hifpid. Leaflets elliptical, 

 doubly ferrated, fmooth, rather numerous. Segments of 

 the calyx fimple, naked and entire. Dillenius fays this 

 fpecies was raifed, in the Eltham garden, from New Eng- 

 land feeds ; but Mr. Purfli never met with it wild in any 

 part of North America ; and Ehrhart gives his fpecimen as 

 a Swifs plant. We believe however that it is a North 

 American, not an European (hrub. In our gardens it 

 bloffoms towards the end of May, ripening fruit in Auguft. 

 Theflem is five or fix feet high, buihy, fmooth, dark red, 

 nor is there a prickle to be found on any part of the plant. 

 Leaves bearing a confiderable refemblance to thofe of the 

 Greater Burnet, Sanguiforba, and compofed of from nine 

 to thirteen large, elliptical, fmooth leaflets, paler beneath, 

 with double glandular ferratures. Flowers folitary, crimfon, 

 on glandular, rather than briftly, flalis. Tube of the calyx 

 oblong, very fmooth ; its fegments quite fimple, entire, 

 narrow, downy at the edges, but deftitute of dorfal prickles 

 or glands. Fruit pendulous, fcarlet, fmooth and (hining, 

 remarkably elongated, beaked and curved, fufficiently dif- 

 criminating the fpecies, which neverthelefs is nearly related 

 to R. alfiina, but in every part more robult. 



49. R. montana. Round-leaved Mountain Rofe. Villars 

 Dauph. v. 3. 547. Willd. n. 29. — Fruit oval, briltly as 

 well as the flower-ftalks. Leaf-ftalks prickly and glandular. 

 Stem with hooked folitary prickles, below each leaf. 

 Leaflets roundifli, abrupt, doubly ferrated, fmooth. — 

 Native of hills in Dauphiny and Switzerland. A very 

 diftinft fpecies, of which we have (pecimens from Mr. 

 Schleicher. The Jlem is only two or three feet high, but 

 ftrong, with many fpreading, reddilh, fmooth branches. 

 Prickles pale brown, moderately hooked or deflexed, awl- 

 fhaped, with a long linear bafe. They Hand folitary, a 

 little below each branch or leaf. Stipulas broad, fringed 

 with glands. Leaf-Jlalks purplifh, llightly prickly and 

 glandular. Leaflets feven, fomewhat glaucous, much re- 

 iembling thofe of the Lefler Burnet, Poterium; their termi- 

 nation generally abrupt, and their ferratures coarie, fcarcely 

 glandular ; the midrib now and then iiciry beneath. Flower- 

 Jlalks terminal, fhort, very briftly and glandular, either fo- 

 litary, 



