How do you prepare your own herbarium sheets? What are the different tools you carry with you while collecting plants for the preparation of a herbarium? What information should a preserved plant material on the herbarium sheet provide for taxonomic studies?

How do you prepare your own herbarium sheets? What are the different tools you carry with you while collecting plants for the preparation of a harbarium? What information should a preserved plant meterial on the herbarium sheet provide for taxonomical studies?

What do you understand by a herbarium? Explain the various steps involved in preparing a herbarium specimen.

Study following statements regarding the preparation of herbarium sheets. (i) Plant should be collected in flowering stage. (ii) Every detail regarding the plant such sa locality, ecological conditions, vegetative and floral characters, etc. should be noted. (iii) Plants are evenly pressed by unfolding all the plant parts between blotting papers (or newspapers) with the help of plant pressers. (iv) Blotting papers need not be changed until the plant gets dried. (v) After drying, the plant specimen is carefully mounted/pasted on the herbarium sheets. (vi) The herbarium sheet is labelled on the lower right hand corner representing the number of plant specimen, data of collection, etc. Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

What do you understand by terms pine cones? Are they different in male and female plants, explain. If you collect cones which are 1 years, 2 years and 3 years old, will they differ? Justify your answer.

What do you understand by proto and metaxylem? How are they related to endarch and exarch condition in plants?