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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://wtop.com/lifestyle/2015/05/fewer-students-study-botany-more-plant-collections-closing/" target="_blank">http://wtop.com/lifestyle/2015/05/fewer-students-study-botany-more-plant-collections-closing/</a><br>

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MOUNT IDA, Ark. (AP) — The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S. shutter their long-standing herbaria.<br>

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