References

Websites:

"Nonvascular and Nonseed Vascular Plants." www.emc.maricopa.edu 2001.

18 Nov 2004  <http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_5.html>

Climate Zones.  Blue Planet Biomes. 29 May 2003 <http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/index.htm> 21 October 2003.

Online Image Database. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee Public Library. 21 Oct. 2003 <www.mpm.edu/collect/fern-9.gif>.

"Vascular Seedless Plants." www.personal.psu.edu 2003.

22 Nov 2004 <http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/e/rer185/biol110hmain.htm>

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Cook, Martha E.; Friedman, William E.  "Tracheid Structure in a Primitive Extant Plant Provide an Evolutionary Link to the Earliest Fossil Tracheids" International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 159, No. 6. 1998: 881-890

Knoll, Andrew H.; Niklas, Karl J.; Gensel, Patricia G.; Tiffney, Bruce H.  "Character Diversification and Patterns of Evolution in Early Vascular Plants” Paleobiology, Vol. 10, No.1. 1984: 34-47   

Roth, A.; Neugebauer, H. J.  "Efficiency and Evolution of Water Transport Systems in Higher Plants: a Modeling approach. I. The Earliest Land Plants” Philosophical Transaction: Biological Sciences, Vol. 345, No.1312. 1994: 147-152

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Text:

Raven, Johnson, Losos and Singer. Biology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005              

 

"Fern," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2003
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.        

Magazine:

Court, Helen Glenn. "Designing with Non-flowering Plants." Home & Garden

17 Feb 2003: 80-86.

Links:

http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_5.html

A link to further information on vascular, seedless plants, with great pictures.

http://dmoz.org/Home/Cooking/Fruits_and_Vegetables/Greens/Fiddlehead_Fern/

An interesting site that has many recipes on how to prepare vascular seedless plants, such as fiddleheads and ferns

http://www.uncp.edu/home/kellyl/Botany%20Ch19%20Seedless%20Plants.htm

An outline detailing seedless vascular plants.