142 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ June, 
Licuens.—In collecting lichens I find it a great convenience to have along 
with me some small paper bags such as grocers use. They take up very little 
room until wanted, and lichens put into them may be prevented from rattling 
around and breaking to pieces, as many of them will do if merely thrown into 
a box. Specimens to be preserved are either (1) those for the herbarium, or (2) 
those, such as rock specimens, which can not be kept on sheets. The latter I 
keep in trays in a cabinet. The former I keepeither in paper pockets, attached 
to the herbarium sheets, or else they are glued to suitable sizes of rather stiff 
paper and these are attached to the sheets by tiny ribbon pins, a pin to each 
upper corner. Specimens in pockets may be more easily handled and so pti 
more satisfactorily, Specimens glued on paper are more readil n when 
one is running over a cover full of sheets, and thus rapid reference is facilitated. 
When I have specimens enough of a given collection I try to have some glued 
and some in a pocket. The form of a pocket which experience has shown me 
is the easiest and quickest to make, and the easiest to handle, is one which I 
suppose is familiar to most botanists. It is made as follows: Fold a piece of 
paper so that the under part shall project about } of an inch beyond the upper; 
fold the projecting part over the other, making the top of the pocket. Turn 
the pocket over and fold back the right and left edges for about } of an inch, 
The pocket is now finished and is to be attached to the sheet by a small spot of 
glue on the center of the back. It is an easy matter to fold several pockets at 
once.—F. LERoy Sarcenr. 
FiLesHy FuNGI (HyMENomyceETEs, eTc.).—I gather fungi of all sorts in 
a basket. This is a common cheap basket with two handles which keep the 
lid down ; it costs 25 cents. It is 13 inches long, 9 inches wide, and 9 inches 
high to the top of the lid. Inside this basket is a paper box, 4} inches high 
and filling half the space; filling the other half of the space on the bottom is _ . 
a common cigar box. Inside the si box at each end are two seidlitz powder 
ag (paper) and between these two boxes standing on their edges, and just 
ing the remaining space are two esi paper boxes with sliding cover ; these 
on S edaalh boxes are filled with cotton, with a bit of stiff paper fitting upon it- 
A copy of the Commercial-Gazette, with the pages folded twice and cut into 
sheets; then these folded again and laid in the top of basket on the boxes com- 
pletes the outfit for taking care of every sort of specimen that can be gathered. 
ls are (1) a very strong steel kitchen knife, handle and blade all 
welded into one ; it costs 10 cents, and is stuck in the slots inside the basket ; 
(2) a first class pocket knife, cae the blades, large and small, kept very sharp, 
(3) a good lens—I use a Coddington 
Pea eg larger and firmer Reais and Boleti will go in the larger box, the 
smaller or more tender ones, such as Coprini, in the smaller boxes. The two 
sliding boxes filled with cotton are intended primarily for Myxomycetes; but 
they are equally useful for Mucedines, Mucorini, small Pezizas, that is, any- 
thing small and delicate. The sheets of paper can be used to wrap up sets of 
leathery and woody specimens such as as Polypori, or sets of leafy fungi can be 
placed inside their folds and ~~ out flat in the bottom of the basket. In the 
case of very large specimens, such as Agaricus illudens for example, the boxes 
can be taken ont and the whale! interior of the basket used. I sometimes come 
