fasciation, 3 / the question of monstrosities
Fig. 7
(showing the bases of cottonwood saplings which had sprouted from stumps four years before)
above (levels 30 0.90 255)
from
Michigan State University copy, digitized May 1, 2014
below
from Missouri Botanical Garden copy, at archive.org, no scandate.
(all cropped to square)
M(elvin). A(mos). Brannon (1865-1950, *, †). “Fasciation.” The Botanical Gazette 58:6 (December 1914) : 518-526
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These variations in symmetry were gradually lost, and practically disappeared in fasciating sprouts at the end of three years' growth.
The whole question of monstrosities might be ignored but for the light their study throws upon numerous morphological structures among plants...
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struck by the turgid moodiness of these images, that seem hardly to communicate anything at all, and by the vital language that nests them.
tags:
fasciation; monstrosities; M. A. Brannon