 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
I. Botany.
Professor Tuttle.
Course 1B: Botany.—In this course a study is first made of the
essential factors of plant structure; this is followed by a brief survey of
the vegetable kingdom, beginning with the fission-algae and ending with
the seed-plants. As each group is discussed in the lectures, as many representative
members as practicable will be studied in the laboratory, including
where possible the important phases of the life-history. The
principles of classification will be considered and illustrated, and as far
as possible applied in connection with the forms studied. Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12 to 1 p. m. Laboratory periods, Tuesday
Thursday, Saturday, 9 to 11 a. m. The class is limited for the present
to thirty members.
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be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students.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 and Zoölogy 1B are 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 Dictyotales:
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.
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