Show MR CHESTER AMES has given to the museum a most interesting vegetable growth in the form of a deformed deformed deformed de de- formed stalk from a rose bush The whole stalk is almost four feet long and the first twelve inches appear perfectly normal being sixteenths seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter About one foot above bove the ground the stem begins to flatten and fourteen inches above this point it divides into two flat branches which at first separate but but which atthe atthe at atthe the ends begin to curve toward toward each other At Atthe the the point of division the stalk is quarter and inches wide and less than thana a quarter of an any inch thick Both branches increase in in width as they increase in length and the widest one becomes three one-and-three- quarters inches wide at its extreme end Neither branch is more than a quarter of an inch in thickness It is probable that for some unknown reason an unusual number of supernumerary supernumerary supernumerary buds were produced by the side of the terminal bud and as many of these developed it caused a flattening of the stalk The flattening once started might be continued because of the added room for accessory terminal buds All who are interested in abnormal vegetation will do well to examine this unusual growth C. C A. A 4 Whiting |