Excerpt from A Monograph of the British Desmidiace , Vol. 1 In the present monograph we have endeavoured to bring together all the published information concerning British Desmids that we have already mentioned, also much work which we have ourselves published con cerning these plants, as well as a large number of hitherto unpublished investigations. 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.