UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA


 BTY. 211.-Elementary Plant Physiology. 2 hours, and 4 hours laboratory.
4 credits. Prerequisites: BTY. 101 or BLY. 161 and CY. 109-110, or equiva-
lents. Offered 1, 2.
 Absorption, assimilation, transpiration, growth, water relations and other functions
of plants.
 BTY. 305.-Plant Kingdom-Lower Plants. 1 hour, and 4 hours labora-
tory. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BTY. 101-102 or BLY. 161-162.
 Biology of algae, fungi, liverworts, and mosses-emphasizing their classification,
life histories, and identification of local forms. Fungi are not emphasized because of
coverage in other courses.
 BTY. 306.-Plant Kingdom-Higher Plants. 1 hour, and 4 hours labora-
tory. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BTY. 101-102 or BLY. 161-162. Offered 2.
 Biology of ferns and seed plants emphasizing their classification and general morpho-
logy and identification of their representatives in our flora.
 BTY. 400.-Plant Geography. 2 hours, and 2 hours laboratory. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: BTY. 101-102, or equivalent. Desirable prerequisites: BTY. 306,
and GPY. 203. Offered 1, 3.
 Distribution of the types of vegetation and of important kinds of flora throughout
the world, with particular emphasis on the Americas. Relations of these to geographical,
climatic, soil, and human factors are stressed.
 BTY. 401.-Plant Ecology. 2 hours, and 4 hours laboratory and field
work. 4 credits. Prerequisites: BTY. 101-102. Desirable prerequisites: BTY.
306, BTY. 211, SLS. 301 or 302, FY. 311. Offered 2.
 Kinds and classification of vegetation, particularly those of Florida, and considera-
tion and measurement of climatic, edaphic, physiographic, and biotic factors and of
plant succession.
 BTY. 402.-Methods in Plant Ecology. 2 hours, and 4 hours laboratory.
4 credits. Prerequisite: BTY. 401.
 The measurement and analysis of environmental factors, and statistical methods
of plant communities.
 BTY. 407.-Taxonomy of Vascular Plants. 1 hour, and 4 hours laboratory.
3 credits. Prerequisite: BTY. 306. Offered 1. Acceptable for major graduate
credit.
 Characteristics of a large number of plant families; and intensive study of the local
species regarding their names and distributions.
 BTY. 411.-Intermediate Plant Physiology. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequi-
sites: BTY. 211, CY. 362 or permission of the instructor. Acceptable for
major graduate credit.
 Topics relating to water relations, ionic balance, mineral nutrition and translocation
in plants.
 BTY. 412.-Intermediate Plant Physiology. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequi-
sites: BTY. 211, CY. 362 or permission of the instructor. Offered 2. Acceptable
for major graduate credit.
 Topics relating to photosynthesis, respiration, metabolism and growth in plants.



The statement "Offered 1" means offered first semester; 2, second semester; 3, summer session.