cycad-trees

Updated: May 28, 2025

Only at a later period flowering plants appear, among them being first the plants with naked seeds standing lower in the systems, as the cycad-trees and pine-forests; later, those with enclosed seeds, among them being again first the monocotyledons, last the dicotyledons, all of them precisely corresponding to the botanical system. The same thing is true in the animal kingdom.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality