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VERTICILLUS

Volume 18 · 62 words · 1797 Edition

mode of flowering, in which the flowers are produced in rings at each joint of the stem, with very short footstalks. The term is exemplified in mint, horsetail, and the other plants of the natural order described above.

Verticity, is that property of the loadstone whereby it turns or directs itself to one particular point.

Vertigo, in medicine. See there, no 82.