(1900)  Page(s) 10, Vol. 4.  
 
"New Western Species Of Rosa" by Edward L. Greene
R. melina Stout and much branched, 3 or 4 feet high, the stem and branches red, glabrous, glausescent, sparingly armed with short prickles, some stout and longer, others slender and smaller, but all strongly recurved: stipules finely glandular-serrulate, with also some subsessile glands extending to the rachis of the leaf, but leaflets glabrous and glandless, these about 7, ovate or oval, acute or obtuse simply and sharply serrate: peduncles of the solitary flowers short and stout, woody and not in the least curved or bent in age by the weight of the very large fruit; this broadly somewhat inverse-pyriform [pear shaped], smooth and glabrous, nearly 1½ inches in diameter: seals smooth and glabrous except on the margin, this closely beset with short-stipitate glands...
Apparently common at middle elevations in the mountains of Southern Colorado...but the species has a northwesterly extension apparently to Montana, and has passed for R. Nutkana with some; though it is extremely different from that by its small glabrous foliage, short and hooked prickles, short woody peduncles never shrinking and curving in fruit; and the sepals are neither long-attenuate nor gland-bearing on the back as in the Northwest Coast roses which form the R. Nutkana aggregate.

(1902)  Page(s) 109-110 issued 1903.  
 
Rosa yainacensis Apparently low and depressed, the branches only 6 or 8 inches long, unarmed except for pairs of stout and prominent nearly straight infrastipular prickles:...leaflets in about 3 pairs...oval...doubly serrate...deeply green above...pale and [downy] beneath..most solitary flowers. Hills of the Yainax Indian Reservation, southeastern Oregon, 1893, Mrs. R. M. Austin; types in my own herbarium.