Date Pts Botany Sc 250 Syllabus: Subject/Event
8/21/00 Attendance and introduction to the course: Muddy when wet
Botany office hours: MWF 1500 in F105 or by appointment at other times.
Textbooks:Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon ($17.95).  A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory, Kent Van de Graff ($20.95).
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8/24/00 10 Balick I
8/23/00 Ethnobotany
8/25/00 5 Quiz 1
8/28/00 Ethnobotany
8/29/00 10 Balick II
8/30/00
9/1/00 5 Quiz 2
9/4/00 Five Kingdoms
9/5/00 10 Video: The Private Life of Plants (power failure)
9/6/00 Duane Nelson: Invasive Plants and Piper auritum
9/8/00 30 Test One
9/11/00 Holiday
9/12/00 10 Lab: Cyanobacteria and algae
9/13/00 Monera: Cyanobacteria
9/15/00 5 Algae:Diatoms and Dinoflagellates
9/18/00 Algae: HABs, Euglenophyta
9/19/00 10 HTML I: Producing a web page with a sketch GIF
DA: Spirogyra
AB: Spirogyra
JG: Spirogyra
SG: sketches
LJ: Oscillatoria sketch
NP: Spirogyra
SP: Spirogyra
ES: Spirogyra
JS: Nostoc sketch
NV: sketches
DW: Spirogyra sketch
9/20/00 Algae:Chlorophyta and Phaeophyta (Sargassum start)
9/22/00 5 Quiz 3 Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta
9/25/00 Mycorrhizal associations Fungi including Zygomycetes and Ascomycetes
9/26/00 10 Bryophyta, Lycophyta, and Pteriphyta
9/27/00 Basidiomycetes
9/29/00 5 Quiz 4, Bryophyta
10/2/00 Lycophyta
10/3/00 30 Lab practical test
10/4/00 Pterophyta
10/6/00 35 Midterm exam: Comprehensive
10/9/00 Review of the midterm examination
10/10/00 10 Plants of Palikir/Vegetative Character
Vegetative Character Laboratory
Vegetative Definitions sheet
Student Assignments: Vegetative Character

BA:Sagittate
SG: Orbicular
FS: Cordate
SJ: Hastate
DW: Deltoid
RX: Awl
10/11/00 Gymnosperms
10/13/00 5 Quiz 5

Draft of web page (text only) of virtual herbarium page for previously done plant due
Refer to http://www.comfsm/~dleeling/botany/virtual_herbarium_page.html for details on contents of this file.

BA: Discorea alata
RC: Nymphaea
PE: Cordyline fruticosa
SG: Alpinia purpurata
JS: Thelypteris maemonensis
10/16/00 Angiosperms
10/17/00 Inflorescences
Floral Lab Walk
Floral Definitions
10/18/00 Growth:Cells and Seeds
10/20/00 5 Quiz 6

Draft of web page (text only) of virtual herbarium page for culturally significant plant due
10/23/00 Growth:Roots and shoots
10/24/00 Holiday
10/25/00 Organization: Stems
10/27/00 5 Quiz 7

Draft of web page (text only) of virtual herbarium page for previously undone plant due
DW: Clinostigma ponapensis (kotop)
10/28/00 Photography weekend
Pictures from Kepar 28 October 2000
1898
1870
Asplenium pellucidum
Clinostigma ponapensis
Lehnpaippohn
Limehrenpong
Iuiu
Kepar 01
Kepar 02
Kepar 03
Kepar 04
Kidou
Lehnpaipohn
Madeu (Pohnpei cinnamon)
Mibrib sori fern
Red Gel Ginger
Thelypteris_maemonensis
Unknown nut
Unknown tree 1
Unknown tree 2
Unknown vine
Wildapple
10/30/00 Organization: Roots and leaves
10/31/00 Visit to the Pohnpei Botanical Garden
Previous visits: Fall 1998 Fall 1999
11/1/00 30 Test 2
11/3/00 Holiday
11/6/00 Review Test Two.
11/7/00 Pohnpei Botanic Garden Followup Laboratory
11/8/00 Holiday
11/10/00 5 Quiz 8

Adaptation: Protection
11/11/00 Photography weekend
Natalia
Sharon
Shinmaysin
11/13/00 Adaptation: Needs
11/14/00 Invasive Species with Bill Raynor (OUTDOORS!) Walk and Talk 2000
1999
11/15/00
11/17/00 5 Quiz 9
11/18/00 Photography weekend
Cacti
Campnosperma brevipetiolata (dohng)
Magnifera indica (mango)
Pangium edule (Duhrien) (Loveleen)
Pelsihner's tree
Red palmate
Unknown sagittate
Unknown xerophyte
Unknown monocot
Unknown yellow tipped bush
11/20/00 Functions: Growth and Dev
11/21/00 Possible Mountain hike (OUTDOORS!)
The mountain 1999  The 1999 guidelines
Guidelines 2000
Release
Alternate assignment
11/22/00
11/24/00 5 Quiz 10
11/25/00 No photographs this weekend: Prior commitment
11/27/00 Functions: Waters, minerals
11/28/00 Possible soil testing laboratory
11/29/00 45 TermProject: Three virtual herbarium pages
  • One plant not previously done (15)
  • One plant that has cultural significance (20)
  • One plant that was previously done (10)
12/1/00 5 Quiz 11
12/4/00 Photosynthesis
12/5/00 30

45
Lab practical test (30) and Live Plant (45) return date

LivePlant returned healthy with sketchbook:

  • Sketchbook should include
    1. Full life cycle diagram as observed by you
    2. Notes how to propagate plant
    3. Notes on what the plant needs to grow
    4. Notes on its response to fertilizer
    5. Notes on whether it prefers sunshine or shade
    6. Notes on whether it prefers to be wet or dry
    7. Drawings should include measurements of size
  • Identification of the plant (Genus species and local name if any)
  • Plant should be healthy, vigorous, growing robustly
12/6/00
12/8/00 5 Quiz 12
12/11/00 Last day of instruction
12/12/00 45 Final 16:20