If you are a graduating senior, this schedule will be slightly modified to accommodate your graduation – I’ll e-mail you later in this regard.

Tentative Schedule:

Week 1 : Introduction to Taxonomy.ppt

Read Smith’s Chapter 1, and CD notes on taxonomy, cladistics

Week 2 : Pteridophytes.ppt (lecture & lab)

Read Smith’s Chapter 2, and CD notes on ferns (Miss_Ferns.doc)

Week 3 : Pteridophytes.ppt; (lecture & lab)

Read handouts

Week 4 : Gymnosperms.ppt

First lab exam
Read Smith’s Chapter 3, and CD notes on gymnosperms

Week 5 : Gymnosperms.ppt (lecture & lab)

Week 6 : Angiosperms.ppt (lecture)

Second lab exam
Read CD notes on angiosperms

Week 7 : Angiosperms.ppt

Read CD notes on angiosperms (lecture & lab); flowers.ppt ; Plant Taxonomy Terms.doc ; Flower lab.doc; floral morphology lab.doc

Week 8 : Plant Morphology I (vegetative.ppt, flowers.ppt)

Read Smith’s Chapter 4

Week 9 : Plant Morphology II (fruits.ppt), Fruit_lab.doc,

Review Smith’s Chapter 4 & Read Chapter 5

Week 10 : Third lab exam

Using Keys; Families; Plant Identification

Read in Smith’s Chapter 6, and CD notes on terminolgy
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab

Week 11 : Lecture on plant environment

Physiography of MS, Physiognamy of MS, Ecological Succession, Soils of MS); Families; Plant Identification

Read handouts and Smith’s Chapter 6
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab

Week 12 : Families; Plant Identification

Read in Smith’s Chapter 6; Herbarium practice, and Smith’s Chapter 8
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab;
DSU Herbarium

Week 13 : Families; Plant Identification; graminoids

Read handouts, Smith’s Chapter 6, and CD notes on graminoids
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab

Week 14 : Families; Plant Identification

Fourth lab exam

Read in Smith’s Chapter 6
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab

Week 15 : Families; Plant Identification

Read in Smith’s Chapter 6
Bring “Carolina Keys” to lab

DURING FINALS WEEK

Final Exam