Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 272.  
 
Clematis Viticella atrorubens; pourpre.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 153.  
 
C. VITICELLA ATRORUBENS ( Hort.).— A free-grow ing and free-blooming plant, moderately slender in growth, and altogether of a very distinct character. The leaves are pinnatisect, those of the sterile shoots having leaflets of a narrow linear- lanceolate form , while those of the upper flowering shoots are broader and more ovate. The flowers are abundant and successional, about two inches across, semiexpanded, of a pleasing tint of rosy - crimson, with a tuft of pale green stamens, which form a very pretty contrast; it is, however, now superseded by C. Viticella rubra grandiflora.