Floral morphology
Floral morphology opened with a playlist on flowers and reproduction in angiosperms. The coconut pollination and hybridization video cannot be understood - the speakers attached to the SMARTboard, the acoustics of A101, and the heavy accent of the speaker rendered the audio incomprehensible. Works well on personal computer in a quiet office. After the video I took the approach of the prior spring and reinforced concepts on the board, starting with a diagram of the whorls in a flower bud. The Asteraceae diagram was put up last and was illustrated using images of Sphagneticola trilobata on the SMARTboard. After the bud diagram I added a full solitary flower diagram. Then I reinforced the monocot/dicot symmetry differences. Including a diagram of Spathoglottis plicata to illustrate the sixth petal. At this point the time was 16:37. I opted not to then hike the campus - there remain too few flowers for illustrative purposes. Too, I had