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or notes, should be attached to the sheet near to the specimen 

 they belong to. In view of this, printed and written tickets 

 should be of small size. 1 A ticket which exceeds four by two 



1 All printing on an herbarium ticket should be in plain type ; and fancy 

 borders, uselessly occupying room, should be avoided. If any border is 

 thought needful, it should be of plain lines. It is not desirable to parcel out 

 the space on a ticket with separate lines and headings for habitat, date of 

 collection, time of flowering or fruiting, name of collector, and the like. 

 These particulars may conveniently be entered at the bottom or top of the 

 ticket, as may be convenient, leaving the rest of the space free for the name 

 of the plant, the authority, and perhaps a synonym. 



Tickets for specimens distributed among other botanists may well have a 

 head-line indicating the source, such as " EX COLL. c. c. PARRY," or " EX HERB." 

 or, in English, " FROM THE HERBARIUM OF " the botanist who communicates 

 the specimen. The following may serve as an example of a simple ticket 

 for the sending out of dried specimens, and of the way in which the ticket 

 may be filled out with the name of the plant, its habitat and station, name 

 of collector and time of collection. 



EX HERB. A. GRAY. 



For the botanist's own herbarium, it is well to use a blank ticket with a 

 printed heading like the specimen above, but with the " ex " omitted. 



When a considerable collection is made in any particular botanical explo- 

 ration or excursion, and numerous or several specimens of the same species 

 are gathered, to be distributed among botanists in the way of exchange or 

 otherwise, these are commonly given out under numbers and with a printed 

 heading to a special ticket. The following is an approved form of such a 

 ticket, and of the mode in which it may be filled up in writing by inserting 

 the name of the species, the locality, &c. 



ALPINE FLORA OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



Coll. C. C. PARRY. 1872. 



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