Among _Leguminosæ_ a partial leafy condition (frondescence), or a more complete degree of the same change, (chloranthy) is not infrequent, particularly in _Trifolium repens_. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
The following list may serve as a guide to the plants most frequently the subjects of chloranthy, but reference should also be made to preceding and subsequent sections, and to that relating to prolification of the inflorescence. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Although, on the whole, chloranthy is most frequent in the families already alluded to, yet it is by no means confined to them, as the examples now to be given amply show. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Indeed, virescence or chloranthy is very intimately connected with this aberration, as might have been anticipated, for if the parts of the flower assume more or less of the condition of stem-leaves or bracts, it is quite natural to expect that they will partake likewise of the attributes of leaves, even at the expense of their own peculiar functions. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
It must be distinguished from virescence, or the mere green colour of the floral organs, and from chloranthy, in which all or the greater portion of the parts of the flower are replaced by leaves. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
In grasses it frequently happens that the flowers are replaced by leaf-buds; this condition is alluded to elsewhere under the head of viviparous grasses, but in this place may be mentioned a less degree of change, and which seems to have been a genuine case of chloranthy in ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
M.A. Viaud-Grand-Marais [289] records an interesting example of chloranthy, in which the sepals, petals, pistils, and ovules of ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Owing to the vagueness with which the word has been applied by various authors, it becomes very difficult to ascertain whether the recorded instances of chloranthy were really illustrations of what is here meant by that term, or whether they were cases of mere virescence (green colour, without other perceptible change), or of prolification (formation of adventitious buds). ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
It is, therefore, quite possible that some of the instances to be now mentioned were not strictly cases of chloranthy. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
= -- Moquin remarks with justice that the position of the flowers on the axis is of importance with reference to the existence of chloranthy. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
By chloranthy it is to be understood that all, or the great majority of the organs of the flower assume these conditions. [ ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Kirschleger says, that in _Rubus_ there are two sorts of chloranthy, according as the anomaly affects the ordinary flowering branches, or the leafy shoots of the year, the summits of which, instead of developing in the customary manner, terminate each in one vast and long inflorescence, very loose and indeterminate, and with axillary flowers. [ ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
