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The first botanist to mention an American species is Parkinson, in his Theatrum Botanicum, in 1640, where he describes his "Rosa sylvestris Virginiensis; the Virginia Bryer Rose," with "divers as great stemmes and branches as any other Rose, set with many small prickles and a few great thornes among them, the leaves very greene and shining, small and almost round." He does not state upon what materials his description was based, but, as it accords rather more nearly with R. lucida than with any other species, they were probably from New England, which was included in the region then known as Virginia. The name and essentially the same description are given by Ray in the Historia Plantarum (1693), but without any additional information.