CHAPTER XIV : FUNGI FOR THE HERBARIUM 



There are no plants more difficult to preserve for an her- 

 barium than the tleshy fungi, and yet my personal observation 

 leads me to believe that there are many people who would be 

 willing to undertake the task if they knew how to set about it; 

 and there is no class of plants in which the assistance of the 

 amateur may help the botanist more than in this, provided that, 

 at the time of gathering a specimen, full descriptive notes are 

 made of all the characteristics of the plant. 



To aid one in quickly taking notes, it is well to have with 

 one in the field some printed or written blanks. A convenient 

 form is suggested by the following outline, which is the one 

 used by the Boston Mycological Club : 



Species 

 Collected by 

 No. 



Locality 

 Date 



COLLECTOR'S NOTES. 



N.B. — When collecting, be sure to get the whole plant, base and all, uninjured; 

 and to get young as well as mature specimens. 



Note here at once the 



Habitat. On -I '^'"'^^ ^'^'"^' '^^^^ °^ "^'"S^* 



( Ground (kind of soil). 



Place (wood, field, wet or dry, high land or low, etc.). 



Under and near what trees? 



Manner of j (Solitary, in clusters, troops, or caespitose [growing from one 

 Growth. ( root]). 



Character. (Viscid, hygrophanous [transparent when moist], dry.) 



Smell. 



Taste. 



Spores. Colour. 



Note. — If the plant is perishable, sketch and describe it fully at once, and look 



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