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



Plate II. 



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A Portion of an Upright Branch of a Cranberry Vine in Which the Terminal Bud, 

 Which Normally Produces a Flowering and Fruiting Shoot, Failed to Develop. 

 In Its Stead Three Shoots Arose from Normally Dormant Axillary Buds. 



a, An abnormal flower in which the sepals are short, broad, virescent, and divided at the base; petals 

 short, broad, and mostly virescent; stamens present, but shortened and somewhat abnormal in form. 

 The ovary is prolonged into a columnar form, is virescent, and shows four depressed liaes representing 

 points of origin of the division walls of the ovary, which easily ruptures along these lines; 6, an enlarged 

 figure of the same flower; c, d, and e, flower pedicels in which the floral organs have all been transformed 

 into small foliaceous structures, c representing the most advanced condition of this transformation, 

 in which, instead of a flower, an almost normal foliaceous shoot is produced. 



