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Book  (1906)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Principal garden varieties of Clematis:
Lanuginosa type. (July to October.)
Excelsior... Deep mauve.
Book  (1898)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Variétés Horticoles
1er Groupe.—PATENS
Section II. — Lanuginosa.
Excelsior (Cripps).  Grande fleur bleue, semi-double.
Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 260, 267.  
 
p. 260: Excelsior. Flore des Serres, 1874, XX, pl. 2050-54.

p. 267: Clematis excelsior (Flore XX, 21); semi-double, bleu.
Magazine  (1874)  Page(s) 24, pl. 1995.  Includes photo(s).
 
1995. C. excelsior (Cripps). La belle variété qui occupe, à elle seule, notre troisième planche, est née chez nos bons amis de Tunbridgewells. Ses grandes fleurs, souvent doubles, mesurent largement six pouces de diamètre. Leurs pétales extérieurs, d'un pourpre grisâtre, y jouent à peu près le même rôle que ceux du pourtour des Roses-trémières. Leurs étamines sont le plus souvent remplacées par cinq rangées de pièces pétaloïdes de la même couleur, ornées d'un ruban central rougeâtre très-remarquable. D'autres gains précieux seront ultérieurement mis en vente par ce digne M. Thomas Cripps dont les deux fils, William et Henry, qu'une mort précoce et inopinée a cruellement enlevés à la tendresse paternelle et à l'horticulture, comptaient déjà comme de très-intelligents et très-actifs travailleurs.
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