Show Slides Revealing Utah Plant 1 I Life Collected By Cottam I Climate Variation Problem l k Will Be Solved in New Greenhouse I f j i Utah plant life has been caught i i by Dr W. W P P. Cottam professor of 1 f V botany on the thc in several campus f V projection slides which he hc has accumulated accumulated ac ac- ac- ac cumulated during many years' years e work It amounts to a sort of herbarium on slides he explains j 11 Great Variety 4 Two tho thousand and of these screen II pictures which Dr Cottam prepared V ed himself are arc in natural colors I t V 1 They show the plant world of Utah including grey green spiny cacti r and the sword shaped yucca of the a southern deserts the brilliant pen- pen pent t toothed dog violets of the canyons and the aspens aspens aspens as as- pens or even the tiny alpine plants Fl of the thc higher altitudes Utah tah Is especially rich in plant Ic V life explains Dr Cottam Its large range of latitude and and altitude altitude alti alti- r. r tude and its variation from the dampness of mountain meadows and and stream-sides stream to the thc aridity of V the thc deserts affords habitats for all kinds of plants he says Some of these plants arc are almost unique in adaptation or location 5 r V Arctic Alpines Certain of the alpines for example example exam exam- pie are found nowhere else except V in the Other plants have made extreme changes in I 1 n 0 n I I ture to endure the dryness of desert desert desert des des- ert climate or the cold of the re re- gion In addition to the slides which he has accumulated Dr Cottam has collected specimens of plants from all over Utah Because there is some question whether differences differences differences differ differ- found in some plants are inherited inherited inherited in in- in- in or the result of the extreme extreme extreme ex ex- variations in Utah's climate one of the first problems to be attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted in the new greenhouse tobe to tobe tobe be built on the campus will be that of planting these forms side by side to determine whether or not they are arc different Dr Cottam says |