(1865)  Page(s) 10.  
 
[From "Observations on Baker's 'Review of the British Roses'" by Alfred Déséglisé]
Il nous semble que les R. vinacea, Baker, R. arvatica, Puget, R. tomentella, Lem., R. Bakeri, Desegl., R. Blondeana, Ripart, ayant les folioles parsemees de glandes en dessous, seraient mieux places dans la section Rubiginosae, que dans les Canina, quoique formant un sous-groupe, ou M. Baker place ces cinq especes.

Translation:
We believe that .....R. Blondeana....having leaflets covered with glands below are better placed in the section Rubiginosa than in Canina, though forming a sub-group, where Mr. Baker has placed the five species.

(1908)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Rosa BLONDAEANA Ripart ex Déséglise, Essai Monographique, p. 133 (1861). “Tall, branched. Stem-prickles robust, dilated at the base, hooked, those of the branches weaker, curved. Petioles furrowed, with fine stipitate glands, almost... 
 

(1878)  Page(s) 183.  
 
Extracts from the Report of the Curator of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1876.
Rosa hibernica, Sm., var. Grovesii, Baker. Barnes Common, Surrey, 1875-76.—H. & J. Groves. Mr. Baker has drawn up the following description of this hitherto undescribed Rose, and forwarded it for insertion here: 
ROSA hibernica, var. Grovesii, Baker.
An erect compact bush, from 3 to 5 feet in height. Prickles of the barren stem more slender and less hooked than in canina, 3/8 inches long, with a scar 3/8 inches long, passing down by gradual transitions into a few subulate, straight, slightly-declining aciculi, none of which are gland-tipped. Leaves of the barren shoot 3-4 inches long, glaucous, glabrous; stipules, glabrous, with a few glands on the edge; common petiole with 4—6 minute aciculi, none of which are gland-tipped; leaflets oblong. ¾—1¼ inches long, sharply, irregularly, but not distinctly, doubly dentate; teeth rarely gland-tipped; end leaflets 1-1¼ inches long, ¾—7/8 inches broad, broadly rounded at the base. Flowers 1-3, usually solitary; peduncle naked, 3/8—½ inch long; calyx-tube broad oblong, naked; segments ½—5/8 inches long, naked on the back, with a distinct leafy point, some simple, some sparingly pinnate. Corolla milk-white, 18-21 lines across when expanded; petals an inch long. Styles densely pilose. Fruit broad ovoid, 5/8—¾ inches long, turning colour at the end of August, deep crimson-red, the spreading sepals fully persistent, still remaining attached in October. Connects hibernica glabra with canina, vars. sub-cristata, Schultzii, and Hailstoni.—J. G. Baker.

(Jan 1910)  Page(s) 45 [supplement].  
 
The British Roses (excluding Eu-Caninæ). By Major A. H. Wolley-Dod.
[discussion of the differences between Rosa hibernica var. glabra and Rosa hibernica var. Grovesii.]
The author writes:
Although the two varieties do not appear to be identical, var. Grovesii seems to come too near to var. glabra.[...] I think it would be wiser to combine the two under the older name of R. hibernica var. glabra Baker.