348 The Botanical Gazette. [August, 
two sheets match exactly, and then on this I lay a couple of 
driers. Itake up the sheet with one drier under it and the 
two on top, and holding these in my left hand, I put my right 
hand on the middle of the pile and reverse it, laying the 
whole down again. I lift up carefully the single drier and 
mounting sheet, and I have the plant on the blotting paper, 
undisturbed, and ready to be pasted. In putting the glue on 
a flimsy plant, and often on a stiff one of any size, I take my 
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part of the plant above it. This holds the plant well in po- 
sition while 1am pasting. Then I either paste the part below, 
or move the cardboard lower down to suit my convenience. 
After pasting the plant, I lay the mounting sheet on it, 
matching the same edges and corners as before, put the drier 
on top and reverse the whole. I carefully lift up the two 
glue does not hold. [ generally put them on after the sheets 
are removed from the press. _— herbarium that is to be 
used very much, I do not believe in putting the plants on the 
sheets with gummed Strips alone, as the plants break much 
more easily when handled. 
Long experience convinces me that the methods described 
above are the best. The object is to mount plants neatly and 
as rapidly as possible, and I cannot but feel that this method 
produces both results, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
