Usage examples (11)

• Some flowers are more liable to virescence than others.
• Some of the above are probably cases of mere virescence rather than of phyllody.
• Frondescence of the petals has been observed most frequently in the following cases; some, perhaps, were cases merely of virescence, q. v.; see also under Chloranthy,...
• = -- The petals also are frequently replaced by leaves, though in many of the recorded instances the change has been one of colour only; these latter are strictly cases of...