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Chloranthy. The term phyllomorphy is applied to the 

 indi^adual parts of the flower which assume the form 

 and appearance of leaves. By chloranthy it is to be 

 understood that all, or the great majority of the organs 

 of the flower assume these conditions.^ In chloranthy, 

 as here defined, there is no unusual number of buds, 

 as there is in prolification, but the appearance of 

 the flower-bud is so changed as to make it resemble 

 more closely a leaf-bud than a flower-bud. There is 

 not necessarily any increase in the number, or any 

 alteration in the position of the buds, but the form 

 and appearance of the latter difier from what is usual. 



Fig. 149. Leafy petal of Epi- Fig. 150. Chloranthy, &c. Epi- 



lohium. lobvum hirsiUum. 



Chloranthy, then, is a more complete form of frondes- 

 cence. Owing to the vagueness with which the word 

 has been applied by various authors, it becomes very 

 difiicult to ascertain whether the recorded instances of 

 chloranthy were really illustrations of what is here meant 

 bv that term, or whether they were cases of mere 

 virescence (green colour, without other perceptible 

 change), or of prohfication (formation of adventitious 

 buds). It is, therefore, quite possible that some of 



1 The calyx is not unfreqnently excepted. 



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