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André ed.,1871, L'lllustration Horticole, vol.XVIII, p.195, pl.81: Flowers of the largest size, very full, perfectly imbricated, with large petals, recurved, obtuse, very perfectly mucronate or slightly emarginate, of a uniform cherry red, lighter on the back, with a regular reticulation of fine veins of a deeper colour on the upper surface. An Italian seedling raised by Mariotti..