When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series, Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative study and family classification of the mono cots, he devoted much energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots; with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally, although during my life as a botanist I had never seriously been interested in mono cots.

to Monocotyledons

Development and Organization
Epicuticular Wax Ultrastructure
Systematics and Evolution
Floral Biology
Conspectus of Families Treated in This Volume
Acanthochlamydaceae
Agapanthaceae
Agavaceae
Alliaceae
Alstroemeriaceae
Amaryllidaceae
Anemarrhenaceae
Anthericaceae
Aphyllanthaceae
Asparagaceae
Asphodelaceae
Asteliaceae
Behniaceae
Blandfordiaceae
Boryaceae
Burmanniaceae
Calochortaceae
Campynemataceae
Colchicaceae
Convallariaceae
Corsiaceae
Cyclanthaceae
Dioscoreaceae
Doryanthaceae
Dracaenaceae
Eriospermaceae
Hemerocallidaceae
Herreriaceae
Hostaceae
Hyacinthaceae
Hypoxidaceae
Iridaceae
Ixioliriaceae
Johnsoniaceae
Lanariaceae
Liliaceae
Lomandraceae
Luzuriagaceae
Melanthiaceae
Nartheciaceae
Nolinaceae
Pandanaceae
Pentastemonaceae
Petermanniaceae
Philesiaceae
Ruscaceae
Smilacaceae
Stemonaceae
Taccaceae
Tecophilaeaceae
Themidaceae
Trichopodaceae
Trilliaceae
Triuridaceae
Velloziaceae
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Index of Scientific Names.