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For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Three courses are offered in Plant Morphology, one of which will
be given each session; each course comprises two lectures and two
laboratory periods of three hours each weekly; participation in the
weekly biological seminar is also required: the course for the year
may, however, be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students.
Lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 2 p. m.; laboratory periods,
Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B
or Zoölogy 1B is prerequisite for entrance upon either of these courses.
The courses offered are as follows.

Course 2C: Thallophytes.—This course will be devoted to the
study of the Fission-Plants: the Green Algae (in the limited sense),
the Confervales, and Charales: the Bacillariales, Brown Algae, and
Dictyoltales: the Red Algae: the various orders of the Fungi, and the
Lichens. The Green Algae will be studied in greatest detail, on account
of their morphological importance as exhibiting a varied and
instructive differentiation of forms from unicellular plants to colonial,
coenocytic, and thalloid plant-bodies; and as the group to which the
higher plants are most nearly allied.

Course 3C: Archegoniates.—The work of this course will comprise
the study of the Liverworts: the Mosses: and the Fern-like
Plants. By far the larger portion of the course will be occupied with
the latter, the anatomy and morphology of the various orders being
discussed and studied at length, together with their relations to the
acquisition of the seed-habit.

Course 4C: Spermophytes.—The study of the Seed-Plants will
comprise a discussion and examination of the anatomy, both physiological
and morphological, of the various orders of Gymnosperms
and of the two great divisions of the Angiosperms: and a study of
representatives, as far as possible, of each of the great orders of the
latter group: in addition, a few representative families will be discussed
and studied in detail.