 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 페이지
...and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches ; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very... | |
 | Alec L. Panchen - 1992 - 420 페이지
...during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . . . and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. One might well ask who before had used the simile of "a great tree". One answer is certainly "Alfred... | |
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The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification... 
