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FIELD BOTANY

Field Botany 114. H. G.—5:30; R. 3. 2 hours. Mr. Lambeth.

The outline projected is intended to give to the student a systematized
course of study, making it an easy and agreeable task for him
to identify the various plant families in his locality and acquire methods
of study by which children may identify and become familiar
with the individual plants of their neighborhood.

Attention will be given to plant morphology and physiology, but
the course will be of a practical character and performed in the fields
and forests near the University where the plant life is diversified and
rich in both indigenous and imported varieties.

Each student will, under direction, collect, identify, mount, and
preserve characteristic types, so that he will have commenced the
accumulation of an herbarium for use in his teaching, and to which
he can continually add specimens from his own locality or that in
which he is teaching.

Text-Book.—Gray's Manual of Botany.