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simple. Secure fruiting specimens when possible, and after cutting off 

 as much bark, dirt, or rotten wood as is advisable from them, place 

 them between driers, press them slightly and then expose them to the 

 sun until nearly dry, or leave them in a loosely fastened press placed in 

 a small room. Fungi are difficult to dry properly, they should as a 

 general rule be placed gills upward in the sun and will dry in that way 

 in a day or two, but many of them cannot be treated in this way, nor 

 indeed preserved at all. 



"With all forms of plants the collector should select the best speci- 

 mens that are to be had when a plant is first seen, and if better are 

 found later on, one should not hesitate to replace, with them, those 

 already collected. While the selection of good specimens in the field 

 is the first important point, care in preserving and drying them is what 

 makes good herbarium specimens. The work in the field may be 

 the most interesting, but it amounts to little more than a health-giving 

 pastime unless the results of the work be preserved in a proper manner. 



LIST OF MOSSES COLLECTED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 



OF OTTAWA. 



By John Macoun, M.A., F.R.S.C, F.L.S. 



( Continued fro')n Vol. II, page 272.) 

 Since the publication of the list of mosses in Vol. II of the Trans- 

 actions of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, I have collected the fol 

 lowing species : 



124. Sphagnum rubellum, Wils.— Mer Bleue (Oct , 1889). 



125. Sphagnum cuspidatum, Ehrh. — Mer Bleue (Oct., 1889.) 



126. Sphagnum intermedium, Hoffm. — In wet woods north of 

 Beech wood, Ottawa (Oct., 1889). 



127. Sphagnum squarrosum, Pers. — -Quite common in little ponds 

 and wet spots north of Beechwood, Ottawa (Oct., 1889). 



128. Ephemerum serratum, Hampe, var. angustifoliura, Schimp. 

 — Not uncommon on overflowed ground at Hull Cemetery and Leamy's 

 Lake (Oct., 1889). 



