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(See abortion Meiophylly.=--A diminished number of leaves in a whorl occasionally takes place; thus, in some of the Stellatć_, and frequently in Paris quadrifolia_, the number of leaves in the verticil is reduced.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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All intermediate stages of this malformation may be found from cases where there is a simple fusion of two flowers with a second verticil of carpels within the outer, up to such cases as those which have been just mentioned.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
In the normal stem of _Galium Mollugo_ the branches are opposite in each verticil and crossed in the two successive ones.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The torsion, then, in this _Galium_ caused the separation of the two opposite branches of the same verticil, and placed them one above another, and this being reproduced in all the whorls, all the branches come to be arranged on the same longitudinal line.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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