Bui. 444, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate !. 
A Normal Fruiting Branch of a Cranberry Vine and a Shoot with Malformed 
Flowers. 
Fig. 1.— A fruiting branch of a cranberry vine with normal flowers in different stages of development: 
a, An unopened bud; b, an open flower; c, the young fruit just after the blossom has fallen; d, young 
fruit. 
Fig. 2. — A cranberry shoot, showing the simplest forms of malformation of flowers: a, A flower with the 
calyx lobes somewhat broader than normal and the petals much shortened and broadened; b, a flower 
with the sepals broadened and divided to the base; the petals are also short, broad and virescent, ap- 
proaching a foliaceous condition; the stamens are somewhat shortened and abnormal, and the ovary 
abnormal, elongated into a conical form, and infertile; c, a condition very similar to that shown in b. 
These illustrations were made from plants collected near Grand Rapids, Wis., on June 29, 1907. 
