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of West 



City of New York. 



Wood 



employed in revising and republishing his several text-books on bot- 

 any, which include the following works: *' Class-Book of Botany," 



(1879). In addition to these educational works, Prof. Wood 

 a " Monograph of the Liliaceae/' which was communicated to the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and published in its Pro- 

 ceedmgs of June, 1868. At the time of his death he occupied the 

 Chair of Botany in the New York College of Pharmacy, a position 

 which he had filled for two years.* 



49. The Preparation of Fleshy Pileate Fungi for the Her- 

 barium. t — -To the preparations previously described, still others may 

 be added. If it be desired to exhibit, in a lamellate species, a view 

 of the under surface of the pileus with the gills, the fleshy portion of 

 the upper surface of one of the halves must be shaved off close to 

 the gills, and the preparation laid, gills upward, on moist gelatine- 

 paper, and submitted to pressure as before described. This pro- 

 ceeding is not well adapted for all lamellate fungi, but succeeds best 

 with those species which, like Caniharellus^ have decurrent gills; for 

 these it is of great value. To prepare such fungi as these, a vertical 

 section is made and from one or both of the halves the flesh is so 

 nearly all removed that but just sufficient is left to support the gills. 

 Then the flesh is removed from the interior of the stipe, and the 

 fungus is ready for the gelatine-paper and press. The very small 

 lamellate fungi, whose fleshy substance is very thin, may be simply 

 dried between bibulous paper, under pressure, without any prepara- 

 tion,^ and afterwards be kept in paper envelopes. Of most of these 

 species, however, there can be made very good vertical sections, 

 which, after being dried on gelatine-paper, may be placed in the en- 

 velope with the other specimen. 



mills are composed of a tough substance, which, after being dried, 

 becomes soft again when placed in water. The larger fungi of this 

 genus likewise may, therefore, be dried without preparation, since 

 the specimens thus treated, on being moistened with water, assume 

 again their original form, just as mosses and lichens do under the same 

 circumstances. It is, nevertheless, recommended that a few 

 specimens of each species of this genus be also prepared by the 

 method under consideration. 



We no\v come to the details of the method, which hitherto has 

 been described only in a general way. 



In most of the Agaricini there are found between the lamellae 

 which radiate from the stipe to the circumference of the cap a few 

 shorter ones, which start from the edge of the pileus but do not reach 

 the stipe; and these are of various lengths. Often, too, the lamell ae 



•Abstractor a "Biographical Sketch of Prof. Wood," read by Dr. O R 

 Willis before the Torrey Botanical Club, March 8th. 



^Continued from page 34. 



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