centranthus

Updated: May 22, 2025

Besides tricotylous, the syncotylous seedlings may be used in the same way. They are more rarely met with, and in most instances seem to belong only to the unpromising half-races. On the other hand I found a plant of Centranthus macrosiphon yielding as much as 55% of syncotylous children and thereby evidently betraying the nature of a rich or double race.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

The young couple surmounted all the obstacles that lay in their path and continued their way betwixt the walls of verdure. To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop.

Émile Zola - Abbe Mouret's Transgression