Verticils Sentence Examples

Upon this torus the parts of the flower are arranged in a crowded manner, usually forming a series of verticils, the parts of which alternate; but they are sometimes arranged spirally especially if the floral axis be elongated.

This suppression when confined to the parts of certain verticils makes the flower asymmetrical.

Thus, in many Caryophyllaceae, as Polycarpon and Holosteum, while the calyx and corolla are pentamerous, there are only three or four stamens and three carpels; in Impatiens Noli-me-tangere the calyx is composed of three parts, while the other verticils have five; in labiate flowers there are five parts of the calyx and corolla, and only four stamens; and in Tropaeolum pentaphyllum there are five sepals, two petals, eight stamens and three carpels.

The parts of the several verticils often differ in their mode of aestivation.

Here, as in the previous genus, sterile and fertile verticils are ranged alternately on the axis of the cone.

Weiss first showed, immediately below the verticils of bracts, the position thus being the reverse of that in Palaeostachya.