CATALOG 1952-1953


 BTY. 431.-Plant Histology. 2 hours, and 4 hours laboratory. 4 credits.
Prerequisites: BTY. 101-102, or equivalent. Offered 1, 3.
 Methods in killing, fixing, sectioning and staining of plant tissues and organs.
Assignment of special plant materials.
 BTY. 432.-Plant Anatomy. 2 hours, and 4 hours laboratory. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: BTY. 101-102 or equivalents. Offered 2.
 Origin, structure and function of principal tissues and organs of plants.
 BTY. 450.-Economic Botany. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: BTY. 101-
102, or equivalent.
 The botanical characteristics of most categories of plants of economic importance,
stressing their kinship, origin, past and present distribution, and various ways utilized,
as timbers, fruits and other foods, fibers, forage, ornamentals, drugs, etc.
 BTY. 470.-Undergraduate Research. 3 hours of independent work for
each semester credit hour. 1-3 credits. Prerequisites: 14 semester hours
of advanced botany and senior standing, and by permission of advisor.
Offered 1, 2.
 Practice in application of scientific methods to some approved topic in botany,
including laboratory and field research; preparation of bioliography and report upon the
topic.
 GRADUATE COURSES
 Graduate majors in Botany should have a Bachelor's degree and 24 semester hours
of undergraduate credit in Botany, including BTY. 211, 305, 306 and 432, or their
equivalents. It is advised that the student should have at least 12 semester hours in
one allied science, and an elementary course in two other allied sciences.
 Graduate minors in Botany must have at least 6 semester hours of undergraduate
credit in Botany above BTY. 101 and 102, or their equivalents.

 BTY. 500.-Advanced Botany. 3 hours of independent work for each
semester hour credit. 1-4 credits. Prerequisites: approval of head of depart-
ment and instructor. Offered 1, 2, 3.
 Problems in one or more of the fields of botany, taxonomy, physiology, ecology and
plant geography, and morphology and anatomy, depending on the requirements of the
minor or major student in botany.
 BTY. 501.-Vegetation of Florida. 1 hour, and 6 hours laboratory. 3
credits. Prerequisites: BTY. 101-102 and BTY. 401. Offered 1.
 All types of vegetation in Florida in relation to soils, climate, physiographic and
geologic conditions. Also the uses of various types.
 BTY. 502.-Ecology of Aquatic Plants. 1 hour, and 6 hours laboratory.
3 credits. Prerequisites: BTY. 101-102 and BTY. 401. Offered 2.
 Aquatic plant communities of lakes, ponds, rivers and marshes.
 BTY. 503.-Vegetational Plant Geography'of the Americas. 2 hours, and
3 hours laboratory. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BTY. 400 or BTY. 401. Offered 3.
 The major types of vegetation of all regions of the Americas, and some economic
conservation aspects of the natural and altered vegetation.



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