Bui. 444, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate I. 



A Normal Fruiting Branch of a Cranberry Vine and a Shoot with Malformed 



Flowers. 



Fio. 1. — A fniH.inK liriinch of a fraiibfirry vino witli normal flowers In dilforont stanos of dovolopnicnt: 

 a. An uno[)f!nj!<l bml; h, an open flower; c, tho j'oiin;^ fnilt just aftor tlio blossom luis falhui; </, yoiiiiK 

 fruit. 



Tui. 2. — A fTfinlxirry shoot, showing tho simnlost forms of inalformiitlon of (lowors: a, A llowor wKli tlio 

 csilyx lolK^-i S')mf!Wliat broiulor than normal and the iwtals much sliortoiUMl and broadonctd; /), a Mower 

 with the :«'i)ar< bro;wlene<l and divided to tho base; the iHitals are also short, broad and vircsceiit, a|)- 

 proiwhin;; a foli;i'i-ous condlllon; tho stamens are somowhat shortened and abnormal, and tho ovary 

 abnormal, eloii'aled Into a eonieal form, and infertile; c, a e<mdltion very similar to tliat shown In f). 

 These illastralion.s were ma^le from j)laiits collected near (Irand Kapids, \Vls., on Juno 2!), 1!)()7. 



