Botany 360Laboratory

Fall, 1999

I. Laboratory Topics (Botany 360L) (For each laboratory schedule, use the Monday Schedule

Day

Month/Date

Topic

M

Aug

23

Introduction to requirements; Macroscopic features of fleshy fungi (begin);

M

Aug

30

Macroscopic features (end); Stature types and uses of required textbooks

M

Sep

6

Labor Day Holiday; no laboratory

M

Sep

13

History of the systematics of the fleshy fungi; Literature for the fleshy fungi; Species concept in fleshy fungi; classical approach

M

Sep

20

What is an individual in mushrooms; How do you study fungal ecology; Classification of Mushrooms; Historical and Modern; Problems and Solutions in Mushroom Systematics

SAT

Sep

25

Field Trip; practice quiz

M

Sep

27

Quiz Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species.

M

Oct

4

Quiz Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species.

M

Oct

11

Quiz Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species.

M

Oct

18

Quiz Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species

SA

Oct

23

Field Trip; practice examination

M

Oct

25

Laboratory Examination (macrofeatures and genera)

M

Nov

1

Quiz Collections; Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species.

M

Nov

8

Quiz Collections; Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species

SA/SU

Nov

13/14

Field Trip; Sunday November 14 is a field examination

M

Nov

15

Cancelled because of field trip and fungus fair

SA/SU

Nov

20/21

Fungus Fair at Redwood Acres

M

Nov

29

Collections; Lectures on families, genera, and selective; species

SAT

Dec

4

Field Trip; collection for final laboratory examination

M

Dec

6

Final Laboratory Examination

BEGINNING the week of September 27, the laboratory will function as follows:

6-6:30 PM: quizzes;

6:30-8 PM: verification of collections; collections placed on tables by family

8-9 PM: extemporaneous lecture on families and genera; emphasis will be on field identification of genera, on ecology, and on edible and toxic species

II. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

A. Required Field Trips

Saturday/Sunday Date

Potential Location

25 September, Saturday

Big Hill

23 October, Saturday

Corral Bottoms or Grove's Prairie

13-14 November

Field Examination; Either Willow Creek or Corral Bottoms; weekend field trip

20-21 November

Fungus Fair at Redwood Acres; see lecture for requirements

4 December; Saturday

Willow Creek and area

 

B. Examinations

Exam

Date

Value

1. Quizzes (20pts each):

Monday, Sep 27, Oct 4,11,18

Monday, Nov 1, 8; quizzes will contain a written question on lecture material

100

2. Laboratory Exam

Oct 25

100

3. Field Exam

Sunday, November 14

100

4. Final Laboratory Exam

Monday, December 6

200

C. Plots

You are required to collect at least once in at least two or more permanent plots established in the Redwood National Park. When you collect in these plots, you are to:

Make Voucher collections of each species identified will be made by the students; therefore ecological data is important and the plot in which the mushrooms are collected is to be noted on the labels.

These collections can be counted towards your genera collections

Plots and Location of Plots

group

Plot

travel

Location of Plots

1

DR1

45

Davison road, pine site, 1.0 mi west of highway 101
 

DR2

50

Davison road, spruce site, 2.0 mi west of 101, north of rd
 

DR3

50

Davison road, spruce site, 2.0 mi west of 101, south of rd

2

DR4

55

Davison road, spruce site, 2.5 mi west of 101
 

DR5

55

Davison road, spruce site, 2.5 mi west, on park service rd

3

DR6

60

Davison road, hemolock site, 3.2 mi west of 101

4

DR7

60

Davison road, spruce site, 3.4 mi west of 101
 

DR8

65

Davison road, pine site, 3.6 mi west of 101

5

JS1

70

Jed Smith State Park, redwood site, picnic area; 0.3 miles from park entrance

6

JS2

90

Jed Smith State Park, redwood site, stout grove area; about 10 miles from Highway 101 off Douglas Park Road

7

RG1

45

Ruggs Grove, spruce site, 1.0 mi west on coastal drive rd

8

SC1

45

Skunk Cabbage Trail, spruce site, 0.8 mi west of 101

9

BP1

50

Holter Ridge Bike trail, doug fir site; extends between BH3 and PA1

10

PA1

45

Lost Man Creek rd, spruce site, picnic area, .9 mi east
 

BT1

45

Big Tree Wayside, redwood site, 0.7 mi north of elk prairie

11

BH1

50

Bald Hills road, young doug fir, 4.0 miles east
 

BH2

55

Bald Hills road, mature doug fir, 5.0 miles east
 

BH3

60

Bald Hills road, old growth doug fir, 5.1 miles east

12

BT2

50

Location of large Sitka spruce site; see Sillett for directions

D. The entire class will be expected to recognize a list of genera and a list of easily identified, common edible or toxic species of fungi. This list will be provided on the Web page for the course as well as on a page on the wall in the laboratory. Your laboratory examinations will cover this list.

E. Collections:

Requirements: You are required to collect mushrooms each week and to identify the collections to genera. Your grade in the course will depend on how many different genera you identify over the semester. You will get credit by having the genera on the family synopsis sheet signed by an instructor. Genera can be collected twice during the semester. These will be noted on the synopsis sheet by having two initials.

Miscellaneous comments on collections:

The first time you want genus identified to be initialed on your family synopsis sheet, you will have to have to have:

spore print or some verification of spore color

stature type of collection;

family name for collecdtion;

the key step numbers you used from Mushroom I & VI

the Friesian genus

the Modern genus

Obviously you can go on field trips together, but you can not share collections. Collections thought to be shared by the verifier will not count regardless if correctlyi dentified.

All collections have to be in excellent shape and consist of all stages of development.

To get 100% on the quizzes and examinations, you have to collect at least 45 different genera spread throughout the families and orders of macromycetes. The numbers required are indicated in parentheses next to the family or the order on the synopsis sheet. You can not get more than 100% on all quizzes or examinations unless you collect all the required numbers on the synopsis sheet.

 

VI. Grades and Total Number of Points

A. Total Number of Points:

Quizzes and Examinations: 500

B. Fudge Factors and grades on collections

# different genera

number of quizzes to count for 100

method of grading examinations other than the final

method of grading final exam

number on all quizzes and examinations multiplied by:
         

183 and above

4 (lowest 2 out)

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

110%

182

4 (lowest 2 out)

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

105%

181

4 (lowest 2 out)

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

104%

171-180

4 (lowest 2 out)

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

103%

141-170

5 (lowest 1 out)

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

102%

131-140

5 (lowest 1 out)

high score

average or high score whichever gives you the highest score

101%

91-130:

5 (lowest 1 out)

high score

total points

100%

71-90:

6 (all count)

high score

total points

95%

61-70:

6 (all count)

total points

total points

90%

51-60:

6 (all count)

total points

total points

80%

41-50:

6 (all count)

total points; your score multiplied by .9

total points; your score multiplied by .9

70%

31-40

D in course, regardless of scores on exams

00-30:

F in course, regardless of scores on exams
   

B. Grading based on percentage of total number of points after including fudge factors

Grade

Percentage of total points
   

A

93 or more

A-

90-92

B+

88-89

B

87-83

B-

82-80

C+

78-79

C

73-77

C-

70-72

D+

68-69

D

66-67

F

0 -65