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



Plate III. 



Flowering Shoots of Cranberry ^/|NES, Showing Various Stages of Phyllody. 



Fig. 1.— a flower in(; sliool; with tlirco flKTorcrifc kIukm of phyllody: a, The iikisI, jiroiKiiuiccd ciindh ion, in 

 which sepals anrl t)ol;ilsarofiljnorrnal in form and virosccnt. Jnslead of an o\;ii y.llio axis is cloiif^'alod, 

 bearing a whorl of four small, green, leafliko liodies, and this is followed by iiiiollii'rsiniilur whoi I, wi(,hin 

 which arc two ol her part iaily fleveloped organs of tlio same kind; b, an ehlargiid (igiii'e of (lie same, and, 

 c, a .sfiCtion of the t)a;al whorl, ntprescnl ing sojials and petals, showing tho condition of the antliers. 

 which were present in a somewhat ahnormal form in almost all ca.sos e.\ccpt in the condition reprusentod 

 in Plato Iv, c, and also in I'iate Jl, c, d, and e. 



Vvi. 2. -A (lowering shoot in which two of the flowers are still more greatly transformod: a, Tn this case 

 the axLs of tho flower, after being prolon(.'ed and bearing a whorl of small, "gr(M'n, leafliko bodies, is con- 

 tinued, producing a. s<;ries of small li^aves, the lower more or less whorled, but tliose above lending toward 

 an allernaU) arrangement similar to that of a normal shoot; h. a form in which tho elong:it(Ml axis has 

 all tho stn.ill leafliko bodies more or less alternately arrangou. In all tho.so cases, abnormal stamens 

 were present in their normal itosition. 



