38 DRYING AND PRESERVING 
expand their delicate branches, A stiff piece of writing paper — 
may then be made to slide under them, and, with a little ad- — 
drefs, the paper may be drawn out of the water so as to bring 
out the plant upon it, in its beautiful and expanded state. . if 
the whole be then dried between blotting papers, under a gentle 
prefsure, the plants will in general adhere to the writing paper 
so as to preserve their form. The Sea weeds miust all be 
soaked in large quantities of fresh water, so as to extract the 
salt before they are laid down to dry. If the collector has not 
time to examine and lay them down while at the sea. side, 
nothing more should be done at them, than allowing theni to 
dry moderately in the open air, and tying them up loosely in 
strong brown paper. They may thus be carried without injury 
to any distance; and when macerated in fresh water, will 
expand as fully as before, so as to admit of their heingt eke 
amined and preserved at leisure, 
.The Funct (Fungufses) may be preserved pretty well by 
the method described in the 2d volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society, at page 263, to which I might refer the 
Reader; but as a longer continued attention to the subject 
has given rise to some little improvement of the method, since 
that memoir was communicated, I shall subjoin the set 
directions : 
Take 2 ounces of vitriol of copper reduced to powder ; ‘pour 
upon it about a tea cup of cold water, stir them with a piece 
of stick, or a quill, for about a minute, then pour off the. wom! 
and throw it away, 
On the remaining vitriol pour a pint of boiling rane pe 
when the whole is difsolved and grown cool, add to it half a 
pint of rectified Spirit of Wine, Filtre it through paper ; keep | 
‘it in a bottle closely corked, and call it the pickle, 
To 8 pints of pure spring water, add a pint and a half of 
rectified Spirit of Wine. Keep this in corked bottles, and call 
jt the stronger liquor, 
To 8 pints more water, add one pint of Spirit of Wine, sok 
call it the weaker liquor, 
Be provided with a number of wide-mouthed glafs. jars, of 
various sizes, capable of hakiang from 2 ounces to 2 pints ; all 
very well fitted with corks, ~ 
Whatever anem whether ohn or me &c. you: wish 4 
