154 The Botanical Gazette. [April, 
long, with coarse fringing hairs half an inch in length. To 
show the roots and rootstocks fully, the upper part of a 
plant must be sacrificed or mounted on another sheet. 
not believe in folding a plant so that parts will overlap ahd 
crowd too much, thereby sacrificing clearness of detail, just 
to bring the whole plant within the limits of a mounting 
sheet. Herbarium specimens, too often, exhibit two extremes 
of careless work. They are either too fragmentary or too 
crowded. The utmost endeavors should be used to make the 
best specimens possible, that our herbaria may be visited 
for their aesthetic as well as useful qualities. 
Cambridge, Mass. 
