a. Now rare. [Cf. prec.]
1. = prec. 1 and 1 b.
1698. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XX. 315. Like the Whorles on a Verticillated Plant.
1752. J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 110 The Lacerta, with the tail verticillated with denticulated scales.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), IV. 531. The verticillated stimulant plants have, in many instances, also, been found serviceable.
1882. Gard. Chron., XVIII. 70. To make trial of seeds of any verticillated plants.
2. = prec. 2, 2 b, and 3.
1718. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., I. x. § 17. 184. Tho’ the Calculation had been made from a greater Number of the Fibres of a verticillated Body.
c. 1789. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), III. 440/2. Different species of stellated or verticillated leaves.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 377. Antennæ … furnished with verticillated hairs, or simply pubescent.
1844. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), V. 84. Flowers produced from the base of the bulb on a long drooping raceme, verticillated along the raceme.
1857. H. Miller, Test. Rocks, i. 20. Its fluted stem and verticillated series of linear branches.
