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[1855]

The Cyperaceous
or Grass-like Plants of Wisconsin,
and the adjacent states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, the Territory of Minnesota and the region about Lake Superior
By I.A. Lapham, Milwaukee.

In the last volume of the Transactions of the Society [1863] we gave an ccount of the true grasses found growing naturally, or in cultivation in Wisconsin and the surrounding country; and it is now proposed to complete the subject by an examination of those species abounding in all our natural meadows which, though not real grasses, yet approach so near them in their nature as to answer very well the purposes of hay and pasturage. They are arranged in a family by themselves and are known to botanists under the general name of Cyperaceae from Cyperus, which is one of the genera, taken as a type of the family. From their close resemblance to the proper grasses, both in their qualities, and in their botanical relations, they may very properly be called Grass-like plants. They