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Rh In Ray's Synopsis, Cheviot is mentioned as a habitat of Epilobium alpinum, and in searching for that species this Plant was discovered. On the side of a rivulet, springing near the summit of the mountain, its height was only four inches, but near the base exceeded eighteen; and cultivated in a situation not altogether dissimilar, its wild habitat is still retained.

In winter it is not deciduous, but forms widespreading matted tufts of small leaves, among which fibrous roots shout out, as in proliferous Plants. The flower-stems are partially decumbent cylindrical, at first simple, afterwards much branched, and furnished with numerous eliptical, slightly-toothed, soft leaves; the flowers are few and the style undivided.

Dr. Smith informs us, that he observed this Plant on the Glaciers of Chamouni, in Savoy. Would not the trivial name caespitosum express its mode of growth?

On Cheviot,—June 23, 1804.

No. 459. .—We have Dr. Smith's authority for considering this Plant distinct from Rosa tomentosa. Its leaflets are densely covered with down; aculei long and straight; flowers numerous, large, and always white, tinged with red at Rh