Magazine  (Sep 1880)  Page(s) 141.  
 
Rose des prairies (Rosa rubifolia) .... R. gracilis (Prince, 1854). Fleur rose, de ton changeant.

Magazine  (1 Apr 1880)  Page(s) 59.  
 
[From "NOTICE SUR LES ROSES AMÉRICAINES" by H.B. Ellwanger, read at the Horticultural Society of Rochester on 29 January 1880]
Rosa Rubifolia (Roses des prairies). ...  Gracilis (W. Prince, 1845). — Rose changeant.

Book  (1846)  Page(s) 104.  
 
Prairie Rose....Gracilis (Prince's) is one of our seedlings, of a roseate changeable hue, and very double.