hOS PRESERVATION OP 



Hume and Mr. Evans of Stepney, is very re- 

 markable in this respect. ■ Every leaflet of its 

 very compound leaves separates from its stalk 

 in drying, and even these stalks all fall to 

 pieces at their joints. 



Dried specimens are best preserved by be- 

 ing fastened, with weak carpenter's glue, to 

 paper, so that they may be turned over 

 without damage. Thick and heavy stalks re- 

 quire the additional support of a few trans- 

 verse strips of paper, to bind them more 

 firmly down. A half sheet, of a convenient 

 folio size, should be allotted to each species, 

 and all the species of a genus may be placed 

 in one or more whole sheets. On the latter 

 the name of the genus should externally be 

 written, while the name of every species, 

 with its place of growth, time of gathering, 

 the finder's name, or any other concise piece 

 of information, may be inscribed on its ap- 

 propriate paper. This is the plan of the Lin- 

 naean Herbarium, in which every species, 

 which its original possessor had before him 

 when he wrote his great work the Species 

 Tlantarum, is numbered both in pencil and 

 in ink, as well as named, the former kind of 



