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Virescence, the state or condition of becoming green, is one of many words in this novel that sent me to the dictionary.

Or this manifesto of aesthetic self-identification: “I’m a son of the north: my hues are the hammered gold of autumn, the silver-grey of the undersides of leaves in rainy springtime, the khaki shine of chilly summer beaches and the winter sea’s rough purples, its acid virescence.”

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, Prolification.

See also succeeding paragraphs and sections in Chloranthy, Virescence, &c.

Some of the above are probably cases of mere virescence rather than of phyllody.