The Buist (1832) is incomplete. It should read:

No. 2. *Rose Animated, daily, is a very fine rose, and its merits are appreciated by those who have it in their collections. It is more double, and better formed than No. 1 [Rosa indica, common China or daily], and partakes of the fragrance of No. 8 [Rosa odorata], is perfectly hardy, colour a fine blush, grows freely, and flowers abundantly; and is coming into great repute.

*Those marked thus * we have grown from seed.

This is not the same as Knight's Animating/Animated.

H. C. Andrews: Roses; or, A monograph on the Genus Rosa, vol 2 (1828)
The purple variety is said to have been first imported from China about the year 1810, to the gardens of Lord Milford, under the appellation of the Blue Rose; and as such many of them were sold at a guniea each, although the plant had not then flowered: such is the fascinating force of novelty, which even in embryo has the power to charm. This rose of expectation, when its blooms unfolded, no heavenly blue disclosed, but a red purple, which as it faded off became much paler, less brilliant, but of a bluer or colder purple, which gives to the fresh opened blossoms a very different appearance contrasted with those retiring; and although the blue’s celestial tint is wanting, it is nevertheless a graceful and very abundant flowering Rose. Our figure was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Colville.

[Andrews' picture of Rosa indica purpurea agrees with Rivers' and Trattinnick's descriptions, but not with the others.]

Rosacearum monographia, Volume 1 (1823)
By Leopold Trattinnick
dichotoma: pedunculi dichotomy. Vulgo: R. Animating, Bengale animée, Bengale dichotome. An hujus loci R. ind. Purpurea Andr. Ros. Fasc. 29. Anglis vulgo: Blue Rose?