help with slides (and texts)? e.lopez at rhbnc.ac.uk Sat Mar 15
21:49:50 EST 1997 Dear bionet educators, Our department has an
undergraduate course in "Vascular Plants", which I have recently
been made responsible for. I am trying to find a good commercial
or non-profit (Botanic Garden?) source of slides which could be
used to describe diversity, particularly of flowering plants,
representatives of major families for example. Do most people in
a similar situation use their own slides? In adition I am
looking for textbooks. Some classical texts (Guifford and
Foster, Morphology and Evolution of Vascular Plants) were being
used, but the focus is very much morphological, with very little
change in many years, and the coverage of flowering plant
diversity minimal. There are some excellent texts for first
year, including some development, biogeography and agriculture,
but our students have already taken two basic units in Plant
Diversity and Plant Organisation and Function, so the one on
vascular plants has to be g