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nature and extent of the wound. In 1910 all the other branches 
bore fruit as usual, but this limb produced a comparatively small 
crop of seeds, and these of a poor quality. The winter buds 
in the spring of 1910 did not appear vigorous, but the writer had 
no opportunity of examining the flowers or the fruit during that 
season, nor in the spring of 1911. This winter, however, a fair 
crop of seed was found on the branch. 
Besides having both stamens and carpels the flowers of this 
branch deviated from the normal types in other respects. Of 
these types Sargent says: "Staminate fascicled on slender hairy 
pedicels, 112'—2' long, the pistillate in narrow drooping racemes; 
calyx campanulate in the staminate, much smaller in the pistillate 
flower." Britton states that "the staminate ones are on hairy 
drooping pedicels, have a 5-lobed calyx, and about 5 stamens, 
with long pointed anthers much projecting beyond it; the pistil- 
late flowers are in smooth or hairy drooping racemes, which 
greatly elongate as the fruit matures, have 5 linear oblong sepals, 
a slightly hairy ovary, two slender styles, and no stamens." 
Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate the normal male and female inflorescences 
respectively. In fig. 5 a hermaphrodite spray is shown from the 
injured branch at the same magnification as figs. 3 and 4, while 
the same spray appears at a higher magnification in fig. 6. The 
inflorescence represented in the latter figure resembles the droop- ° 
ing raceme of the normal carpellate more than the fascicle of the 
normal staminate. The structure of the flowers, moreover, is 
different from the two ordinary types. The calyces resemble 
the larger and more campanulate calyces of the staminate flowers; 
but in their deep lobing they are more like those of the pistil- 
late. Finally, the normal number of stamens is given by 
Gray as 4—5, by Sargent as 4—6, and by Britton as about 5. The 
number of stamens in the flowers shown in fig. 6 varies from 
0-5, the commonest numbers being 3 and 4. These hermaphro- 
dite flowers, then, in respect to the character of the inflores- 
cence, the structure of the calyces, and the number of the 
stamens, are intermediate between the normal dioecious types. 
The condition described is evidently teratological, but since 
wounding is known in many cases to cause reversion to a more 
