Excerpt from Annals of Botany, Vol. 20: With Thirty-Five Plates, Map, and Forty-Three Figures in the Text In the hope of gaining some new light upon the vexed question of the relationships of the Monocotyledons, the writer has undertaken the present study of the Cyperaceae, a group which is especially interesting on account of its apparently somewhat isolated position and its clearly-marked characters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.