Bui. 444, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate III. 
Flowering Shoots of Cranberry Vines, Showing Various Stages of Phyllody. 
Fig. 1.— A flowering shoot with three different stages of phyllody: a, The most pronounced condition, in 
which sepals and petals are abnormal in form and virescent. Instead of an ovary, the axis is elongated, 
bearing a whorl of four small, green, leaflike bodies, and this is followed by another similar whorl, within 
which are two other partially developed organs of the same kind; 6, an enlarged figure of the same, and, 
c, a section of the basal whorl, representing sepals and petals, showing the condition of the anthers, 
which were present in a somewhat abnormal form in almost all cases except in the condition represented 
in Plate IV, c, and also in Plate II, c, d, and e. 
Fig. 2.— A flowering shoot in which two of the flowers are still more greatly transformed: a, In this case 
the axis of the flower, after being prolonged and bearing a whorl of small/green, leaflike bodies, is con- 
tinued, producing a series of small leaves, the lower more or less whorled, but those above tending toward 
an alternate arrangement similar to that of a normal shoot; b, a form in which the elongated axis has 
all the small leaflike bodies more or less alternately arranged. In all these cases, abnormal stamens 
were present in their normal position. 
