How To Use verticillate In A Sentence
- The tendency to petalification is, moreover, greater among those plants which have their floral elements arranged in spiral series, than among those where the verticillate arrangement exists; and in any given flower, if the stamens are spirally arranged while the carpels are grouped in whorls, the former will be more liable to petalody than the latter, and _vice versâ_. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Again, the simultaneous evolution of the parts of the flower and their consequent verticillate arrangement, are often associated with the production of different forms from those characteristic of organs developed in succession, and, in consequence, arranged spirally. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Potentilla, Paris_ and _Convallariae, _ one of the latter has verticillate leaves, and its root also called "bikh," is considered a very virulent poison. Himalayan Journals — Complete
- Displacement of the parts of the flower from elongation of the receptacle is a not infrequent teratological occurrence, resulting sometimes in the conversion of the verticillate into the spiral arrangement. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- In the verticillate or simultaneous arrangement of leaves the case is somewhat different. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- For example in the panicle of _Eragrostis Willdenoviana_, the branches are irregularly disposed, whereas in _Sporobolus coromandelianus_ the branches are verticillate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The panicle in _Sporobolus coromandelianus_ is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- If, on the other hand, the carpels be few in number, and placed in a verticillate manner, the axis then generally passes upwards without any change in the form or position of the carpels being apparent, as in a proliferous columbine, figured in the 'Linnean Transactions,' vol. xxiii, tab. 34, fig. 5. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- In addition to these changes, which are those most commonly met with, the number of the parts of the flower is sometimes augmented, and a tendency to pass from the verticillate to the spiral arrangement manifested. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants