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Amanda Ash, Department of Paleobiology Smithsonian Institution NHB, Washington, DC; Beth Ellis, Boulder, CO; Leo J. Hickey, Division of Paleobotany, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University New Haven, CT; Kirk Johnson, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO; Peter Wilf, University of Michigan, Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor, MI; Scott Wing, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution NHB,Washington, DC: Manual of Leaf Architecture (PDF file). ISBN 0-9677554-0-9, Copyright by Smithsonian Institution. Published and distributed by the Leaf Architecture Working Group (LAWG). (Page hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University). The main goal of this manual is to define and illustrate for the reader an unambiguous and standard set of terms for describing leaf form and venation, particularly of dicots. This manual also provides a template and set of instructions that show how descriptive information can be entered into a standardized database of fossil and extant leaves.

Alice Bergfeld (she is the English editor), Rolf Bergmann, University of Hamburg, and Peter v. Sengbusch, University of Bielefeld and Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, University of Hamburg: BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook. Botany online is based on the textbook 'Botanik' by Peter von Sengbusch (Mc Graw Hill Book Company, 1989). The original text has been supplemented by hundreds of coloured illustrations and photos by animated molecular models, short animations of movements and flower diagrams. The text is interconnected by numerous links and nearly each new topic or subtopic starts with a short summary and ends with a bibliography. Now both, the International and the German Edition are available for download. Excellent!

The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), California at Berkeley: Introduction to the Plantae, and Introduction to the Pteridopsida: the ferns

Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Introduction to the Cycads.

The Botanical Society of America: Botany for the Next Millennium. This report should be of great value to individuals in developing persuasive reasons for representation of botany in the research and educational missions of their institutions.

C.E.J. Botha, Botany Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa: Virtual Plant. Lecture notes (organization of plant organs), for a first year plant biology course.

Françoise Brenckmann, Bougival, France: Seeds of Life. Easy to understand multimedia introduction to seeds.

Bane Cheek, Polk Community College, Winter Haven, Florida: An Introduction to Cycad Reproduction.

Richard Crang, Beth Morgan, Orla Dermody, Chris Hauser, Paul Henne, Angela Kerber & Joann Lau, Life Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Introductory Botany course. See also: Links for Independent Exploration. Internet travels in the life sciences.

Richard H. Falk, Plant Biology Section, University of California, Davis: Plant Biology 11 Course Notes, and Plant Biology 122 Course Notes.

Michael J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona: On-Line Biology Book. More than 40 chapters! Very useful contributions to botany, e.g. PLANTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE, PLANTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE II, FLOWERING PLANT REPRODUCTION: Flower Structure and FLOWERING PLANT REPRODUCTION: Fertilization and Fruits.

J. Folsom, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA: Plant Trivia Timeline. The Timeline gives world history from the viewpoint of a botanist. It is the story of plant discovery and use, and addresses the roles of plants in human civilization. Excellent!

Michael D. Guiry, Department of Botany, University College, Galway: Plant evolution, growth, anatomy and reproduction.

Plant Biology 260 at the University of Illinois: Plant Biology 260 introduces the principles and methods of identifying, naming, and classifying flowering plants. It includes a survey of selected flowering plant families and provides information on their interrelationships. The links provided in the Lecture Syllabus. lead to supplementary information offered by other on-line systematic courses at other universities.

Jones and Bartlett Publishers, BotanyLinks: net Questions. These exercises allow students to explore a topic in greater depth while encouraging the use of active learning skills. A brief overview of the question is provided in the text, and here on the web site you will find the more detailed and site-specific instructions. From "Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology", 2e, by James D. Mauseth.

Derek Keats & Alan Millar, Botany Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa: Giving a scientific talk: A guide for botanists.

Tom Kimmerer, Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, Lexington: TreeWeb: The Natural History of Trees. This page is an excellent source to learn more about the natural history, taxonomy, and other characteristics of trees. Basic introductions to tree classification, anatomy, and physiology. The extensive species index contains detailed accounts of ecology, physical properties, environmental range, and life history of the species treated.

Ross E. Koning, Biology Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic: Biology of Plants. This course is an introduction to botany and plant anatomy, morphology, natural history, and evolution. See: Why Study Plants?

Martin C. Mathes, Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: General Botany. This course is designed to give the student a broad background in the traditional subject matter of botany. This includes topics on organisms in the plant kingdom as well as organisms not in the plant kingdom but which affect the growth ecology or evolution of plants (e.g., selected bacteria, fungi, and selected protists).

! NASA, Earth Observatory. The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. By activating the glossary mode, you can view each page with special terms highlighted that, when selected, will take you to the appropriate entry in the glossary. Use the full-text search engine, or go to: Data and Images. To view a particular dataset, select one of the data types in this column, e.g. Vegetation, or Landcover Classification.

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.

RONALD H. PETERSEN & KAREN W. HUGHES, Mycology Lab, University of Tennessee: A GUIDE TO BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. Superbly done!

Pater H. Raven, Ray F. Evert, and Susan E. Eichhorn (W. H. Freeman & Company): Biology of Plants. A kingdom presentation of botany (sixth edition) organized around 3 themes: plant growth and development carried out by chemical interactions, evolutionary relationships guiding understanding of form and function in organisms, and ecology as a way of emphasizing our dependence on plants. Approx. 400 illustrations from the text, flash cards, web links, videos and animations. Portions of this site requires Shockwave and QuickTime. Excellent!

James L. Reveal, Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland: Plant Taxonomy. Lecture notes, and PBIO 450 LECTURE SYLLABUS: Advanced Plant Taxonomy. Descriptions of some flowering plant families.

John Shane, School of Natural Resources, George D. Aiken Center, University of Vermont, Burlington: Dendrology. The goals of this course are to identify trees and important shrubs (by sight), and to identify the most important silvical characteristics (i.e., range, tolerance, site requirements, etc.) of these species.

Tom Silva, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Megasporogenesis and Megagametogenesis: A Review.

Dan Skean, Albion College Biology Department, Albion, Mich.: VASCULAR PLANTS. Course materials. See also: Albion College Vascular Plant Image Gallery. Images are listed by class and then alphabetically by family and scientific name.

Roy Volkwyn and Jocelyn Collins, Internet BioEd Project, Western Cape Schools Network and Botany Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa: Angiosperm Anatomy, Textbook and Resources, and Plant Tissues, Textbook and Resources.

Hugh D. Wilson, Department of Biology Herbarium (TAMU), Texas A&M University (with support from the Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries): BOTANY 201 - TAXONOMY OF FLOWERING PLANTS Lecture Notes - Fall 1998

Steven J. Wolf, California State University Stanislaus: Morphology of Vascular Plants. A collection of categorized links.