Addisonia 73 



(Plate 117) 

 VIORNA BALDWINII 



Pine-hyacinth 



Native of peninsular Florida 



Family Ranunculacea© Crowfoot Family 



Clematis Baldwinii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 8. 1838. 

 Viorna Baldwinii Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 439. 1903. 



A perennial with a cluster of tough-succulent cord-like roots at 

 the base of a hard simple or branched caudex. The stems are 

 solitary or several together, angled or ultimately channeled, finely 

 pubescent, at least when young, sparingly leafy, and simple or in 

 the case of robust plants sometimes somewhat branched. The 

 leaves are opposite, in few pairs, distant or sometimes approximate 

 " on the branches. The blades are various, either entire throughout 

 the plant or entire on the lower part of the stem and lobed above; 

 those of the lower leaves relatively shorter and broader than those 

 of the upper, ovate, oval, elliptic, or lanceolate, half an inch to two 

 inches long, obtuse or mucronate ; those of the upper ones lanceolate, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, or linear, or palmately or pinnately lobed and 

 with narrow divisions ; all of them more or less pubescent beneath, 

 at least when young, or sometimes glabrous, sparingly veined with 

 the veins united in intramarginal loops, and sessile or with short 

 margined petioles. The pedicels or flower-stalks are elongate, 

 erect, similar to the stem but more slender and more pubescent, 

 usually copiously pubescent below the flower, the hairs white or 

 whitish, short, crisped. The flower is solitary at the end of each 

 pedicel, nodding. The calyx is campanulate, about an inch long, 

 deep lavender and shining without, pale-lavender or whitish within, 

 more or less swollen at the base; the sepals are sometimes faintly 

 lined, with the spreading or recurved margins thin and crisped, 

 often sparingly pubescent without, tomentulose within in a line 

 along the margins. The corolla is wanting. The stamens are 

 numerous, erect, borne on a receptacle just within the whorl of 

 sepals'; the filaments are filiform, but slightly flattened, sparingly 

 villous except near the base; the anthers are linear, glabrous, 

 decidedly shorter than the filaments, abruptly and minutely tipped 

 at the apex. The carpels are numerous, crowded on a hemispheric 

 receptacle, elongate; the ovary is ovoid and densely clothed with 

 long sliky appressed hairs ; the style is filiform, densely clothed with 

 and hidden in the long silky hairs which are loosely appressed on 

 the lower part and closely appressed on the upper. The stigma is 

 introrse, slightly recurved at the apex. The achenes are borne in 

 an erect plume-like head; their bodies are ovoid, fully one sixth 

 of an inch wide, loosely appressed-pubescent, brown, each terminat- 



