REQUIREMENTS:

YOU MUST ATTEND ALL CLASSES, unless dire circumstances keep you from doing so.

TO RECEIVE AN A or B, you must successfully meet the academic requirements for the course, and have an excellent attendance record. You must be an active participant in the course! Don’t see me after final grades have been entered, and say, “I deserved an A or B in this course,” when all you did was technically attain an A or B. I expect you to be an active student!

SIGHT IDENTIFICATION:  Usually on Wednesdays, students will have to identify 5-30 plants covered during previous weeks.

KEYING PLANTS:  Throughout the latter part of the course, unknown plants will be given for you to key out.  This will normally be done on Mondays. You must successfully key specimens out to species.

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. Note: these specimens should not include any species we cover in class.

THE BIOLOG – There is a BLOG for this class (and dendrology & ecology 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).