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preserving the shape, color and consistency of these planl has 

 yet been devised. Until some good process is invented we m 

 have recourse to photographs, drawings and description 



Poisoning. Fungi in the herbarium are very Liable to the 



attacks of insect pests. Before storing a collection of dried 

 plants it is well to fumigate the specimens in a bight box (a tin 



wash-boiler is convenient for the purpose) in which a saucer of 

 carbon disulphide has been placed. Tin- process should be re- 

 peated after a few weeks to destroy any eggs thai escaped the 



first fumigation. Naphthaline, kept in the boxes with the plants 

 will keep out insects but will not stop the ravages of those thai 

 may already be in the plants. 



Storing in the Herbarium. For methods <>!' sectionii 

 pressing and mounting fleshy fungi upon herbarium sheets, 

 reference may be had to the manuals. To us all these methods 

 have seemed unsatisfactory, and our collectors keep nil <>i' their 

 plants just as they were dried, in convenient sized cardboard, 

 wood or tin boxes. Methods of labeling and arrangemenl 

 species, genera, etc., in the herbarium do not differ from thi 

 used in herbaria of the higher plants, and call tor no special men- 

 tion here. 



Description Blank: 



Pileus. Shape — Hat, convex, concave, umbonate, umbilic 



Dry, moist, hygrophanous, dull, shining, viscid; tough, 

 fragile, flesh}-, membranaceous; smooth, floccos aly, 



silkv, fibrillose; even, rough, wrinkled, furrowed, i 



Margin entire, wavy, striate, pectinate, tuberculate, involute, 

 evolute, pubescent, smooth, floccose, strigose, appendic- 

 ulate, etc. 



Color and markings; change of color when cut or bruised. 



Odor, taste. 



Lamellae or Tubes. Shape; attachment, free, adnexed, adn 

 sinuate, decurrent. 



Distant or crowded, entire, branched, forked, connected by 



veins. 



Surface — smooth, powdery, marked in'any way. 



Color — young and old. 



Texture — thick, thin, tough, brittle, etc. 



Margin — entire, wavy, scalloped, toothed, fringed. 



If tubes; color of body and mouth, length, size, whether 



mouth entire, toothed or lacerate. 



Flesh. Soft, watery, corky, coriaceous, woody, etc. 

 Color — in general; just beneath the skin; of context. 

 Juice — taste, color, whether changeable on exposure. 



