name of a class in Ray's and Verticill-Boerhaave's Methods, consisting of herbaceous vegetables, having four naked seeds, and the flowers placed in whorls round the stalks. The term is synonymous to the laicii, or lip-flowers of Tournefort; and is exemplified in mint, thyme, and savory. Verticillate is also the name of the 42d order in Linnæus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of plants which answer the above description.