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for a few dollars constructed a sheet iron box with shelves of wire netting. 
'The dimensions of such a box may be adjusted to suit individual needs. 
A convenient size is four feet high by two feet square or less, with sliding 
shelves three inches apart. ‘These should be of strong coarse wire net- 
ting, bound at the edges. Small squares of fine wire netting are con- 
venient, also, for the reception of collections of small species. These 
can be laid on the shelves. The box is without a top and without a 
bottom, with a door in front, where it is held from collapsing by bands 
of sheet iron above and below the door. At the very bottom holes 
around the sides admit air. A kerosene stove completes the equipment. 
The height of this determines the position of the lowest shelf, on which 
it is well to lay a small plate of tin or glass, directly above the lamp, 
to distribute the heat. With this apparatus, the lamp with a low flame, 
relays of fungi may be conveniently dried ; a lot put in in the evening 
will dry in the course of the night. When dry they may be allowed to 
accumulate on driers heaped on floor or table until a misty or rainy at- 
mosphere renders them flexible enough to be put to press. Some five 
hundred collections were treated successfully in this way in five weeks 
in 1900. It seems probable that a portable drying box of the kind de- 
scribed, that could be arranged to fold or clamp at the corners, might 
easily be made. 
Among the fleshy fungi, properly so called, collected at Alstead, the 
Boleti are prominent, as was to be expected, in a number of species. 
The following list, with notes, will show what it was possible to find 
among 'the hills of New Hampshire in a dry season. 
It is natural, of course, to find Boletinus pictus Peck in every sphag- 
num bog, and on the mossy hummocks in wet woods, especially where 
there is abundance of decayed wood. It appears in Alstead at least as 
early as July 4, and probably earlier. Occasionally a rotten log may 
be found bearing a half dozen fruits in various stages, when the mycelial 
strands may be disclosed by tearing the log to pieces. All specimens 
examined had the solid stem and the dark red color required by the 
author's description, but were slightly umbonate. As found about 
Boston the species appears closer to B. cavipes Kalch., for the stem is 
usually hollow at the base, although the color is not that ascribed to 
the latter species. 
Boletinus porosus (Berk.) Peck is occasional, but B. paluster Peck 
has not yet been found. It has been collected at Centre Harbor by 
Mr. C. F. Grover. 
