We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.

somniatory vaticinations

It may be a vast waterfront fire, like the Staten Island ferry terminal blaze a few years ago that consumed acres of buildings; a supercatastrophe, like the Black Tom explosion; a blazing oil tanker drifting toward a pier laden with explosives; or perhaps a helicopter pilot has dunked in the river, a boat is adrift, or someone has fallen off a ferryboat.

The existence of “swarms” of related species or subspecies with near-complete combinations of morphological traits (“ochlospecies”; White 1962, Cronk 1999) may indicate that the terminal phylogenetic structure of some tropical tree lineages may actually be highly reticulate.