REQUIREMENTS:
YOU
MUST ATTEND ALL CLASSES, unless dire
circumstances keep you from doing so.
SIGHT
IDENTIFICATION: On Thursdays (see schedule), students
will have to identify 10-15 plants covered during previous
week.
COLLECTING AND MOUNTING: Each student will be
required to collect, press, dry, identify and provide a
typed label of several species of plants (two specimens of
each species). You will also process these specimens
through the various steps of herbarium preparation. This
will include mounting and labeling correctly identified
dried specimens, freezing and filing them in the
herbarium.
THE BIOLOG – There is a BLOG for this class (&
for dendrology & field botany as well) at:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/biologmarshdoc/
Visit it about 2 X per week. You’ll find comments,
observations, schedules, etc. You can post your own
comments here (I encourage you to do so).
SCHEDULED EXAMS, ETC.