Website Update

Beginning with this issue, we will be listing the newly published chapters on the MEMBG website (http://www.lifesci.ucla.edu/botgard/) in every newsletter You can use these chapters as lessons in plant biology. (And please let us know if you find mistakes that should be corrected!)

• General Botany: leaf color, stipules and stipels
• Life Forms: parasitic plants, saprophytic plants
• World Vegetation: mangal (mangrove), coastal salt marsh, marine meadow and surfweed communities
• Economic Botany: algae, allspice, amaranth, avocado, bamboo, belladonna, black pepper, blood poisons, carnauba was, chaulmoogra, chili peppers, cinnamon, clove, cochineal, coconut, cole crops, cork, curare, doctrine of signatures, ergot, giant reed, insecticides, jojoba, kiwifruit, kolanut, Madagascar periwinkle, ma huang, mango, marijuana, nutmeg hallucinogens, olive, onion and garlic, pacific yew and taxol, papermaking, peanut, pineapple, plants and medicine, quinine, rauwolfia, strawberry, sugar maple, tomatoes and eggplant, vanilla, willow, woad and indigo, yams (medicinal)

Also, by the time you receive this newsletter, the other issues will probably be posted on the website, including many illustrations in color rather than black and white.

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