(Jun 1948)  Page(s) vol. 50, no. 594, pp. 145-147.  
 
SOME MINOR FORMS OF ROSA
M. L. Fernald
One of the most remarkable of roses only recently described is Rosa Rousseauiorum Boivin in Naturaliste Canadien, lxxii. 225 (1945), the third very characteristic species endemic to the area centering on the lower River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the new one strongly marked by its very large and dilated stipules (2-3.5 cm. long) bordered by crowded red stipitate glands so that the teeth often appear glandular-pectinate, the sepals 1.8-2.5 cm. long. The earliest collections cited for this endemic of the lower St. Lawrence were made in 1927. It is, therefore, worth noting that among the accumulation of "unidentified" roses in the Gray Herbarium there is a very characteristic specimen from "Canada, Herb. Shepard'', with Crépin's note ''R. blanda Ait. var. à dents composées-glanduleuses''. What Crépin could not have known from this very old specimen (just in bud) is the fact that in maturity the sepals would have become reflexed against the fruit, the very striking character which distinguishes this species, R. Williamsii Fernald and R. johannensis Fernald from R. blanda, in which the sepals form a porrect beak at summit of the fruit. Since this specimen came from "Herb. Shepard'' it is probable that John Shepard received it from Frederic Pursh, who explored the lower St. Lawrence.

(1954)  Page(s) 74.  
 
"Notes on Some Roses In the Gray's Manual Range," by Julian A. Steyermark, pp. 70-79 at p. 74
In an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory evaluation and disposition of the various taxa of Rosa occurring in Missouri, it became obvious that in both the latest Gray's Manual and Gleason's Flora, several taxa were not treated.
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Rosa Palmeri Rydb.
...Rydberg characterizes this...as having "leaflets firm, dark-green above, paler and pubescent benearth, at least on the veins, leaf-rachis glandular-hispid."...Neither these characters nor the number of leaflets, "leaflets on the young shoots mostly 9 and the floral branches mostly 5" ....serve to distinguish R. Palmeri from R. carolina and var. villosa.

(Apr 1926)  Page(s) 56-57 vol 28, no. 328.  
 
Botanizing in Newfoundland
M. L. Fernald
But we found two other species which we had not previously thought of as peculiarly fragrant. One was the ubiquitous Rosa nitida Willd. This shrub was in such beautiful condition that we yielded to the temptation to put some into our collecting boxes, although herbaria are full of Newfoundland specimens. Opening our boxes in the evening, we were surprised by a delicious and pervading fragrance as of tuberoses (Polianthes tuberosa L.). This came from the flowers of Rosa nitida and our respect for the common rose of southern and central Newfoundland vastly increased.