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| | Botany Advisor List |
 | | The Department of Botany's mission is to discover and describe plant life in marine and terrestrial environments, to interpret the evolutionary origin of this diversity, and to understand how humans are affected by and have altered plant diversity on the planet. |
 | | The Botany Department is located within easy reach of many other important reference collections in the Washington area, including the National Arboretum, the National Orchid Collection, and the United States Botanic Garden, where large living collections of plant species and horticultural varieties are maintained. |
 | | The research, field exploration, training, and conservation components provided by the Botany Department in combination with the horticultural and public display elements at the USBG forms a highly significant botanical consortium in the Washington area and the Nation with joint projects on research, botanical exhibition, and environmental education and conservation for the public. |
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