OG 
CYCADE^. 
^'Tlie full development of this link in the 
secondary periods of geological history, 
affords an important evidence of the uni¬ 
formity of design which now pervades, and 
ever has pervaded all the laws of vegetable 
life. Facts like these are inestimably pre¬ 
cious to the natural theologian: for they 
identify as it were the artificer, by details 
of manipulation throughout his work. 
They appeal to the physiologist in language 
more commanding than human eloquence: 
the voice of very stocks and stones, that 
have been buried for countless ages in 
the deep recesses of the earth, proclaim¬ 
ing the universal agency of one all-direct¬ 
ing, all-sustaining Creator in whose will and 
power these harmonious systems originated, 
and by whose universal providence they 
are and have at all times been main¬ 
tained.”'^ 
Traces of the next tribe, the Liliacece are 
found from the coal upwards. The tropical 
forms of the Yucca and its allies, now ob¬ 
jects of admiration in our conservatories^ 
* Hucklaiul Br:i<lgc\vater Treatise, p, 50L 
