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 The course for the year may be withdrawn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.
