Question

Which of the following figures represents the correct method of pressing plants to form herbarium sheets ?

A. Figure A as the plant parts are folded.
B. Figure B as every plant part is unfolded.
C. Both figure A and B as folding or unfolding does not matter.
D. none of these

Answer 1

Correct Answer - B
A herbarium is a collection of plants, which have been dried, pressed mounted on herberium sheets, identified and classified according to some approved sysyem of classification, During making a herbarium plants are evenly pressed by unfloding all the plant parts between blotting papers (or newspapers ) with the help of plant pressers.