292 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
jolting of Adirondack corduroy roads and the manipulations of 
the railroad baggage fiend. f ; 
For transportation I use pasteboard boxes, which may be of 
any convenient size (mine are 1} by 3 inches), made with a deep 
lid and a stiff base, with simply a shoulder or shallow rim around 
it, high enough merely to serve as a bearing for the lid. The wood 
or other material bearing the specimens can be placed upon this 
base, held in position by light rubber bands, and the lid placed 
over all. 
inocular or in their structural details with high powers. Some 
genera, as Diachea and Lamprod 
or iridescent lustre of the sporangia walls. Others, of the Phys 
curacece are characterized either by snowy crystals or highly -col- 
ored granules, orange, scarlet, lilac, or purple, of calcium carbon- 
ate. Still others, of the Trichiacee and Areyriacee, by their 
beautiful spore and thread-markings and sculpturing, are worthy 
objects for the use of the higher lenses of the microscope. _ 
The limited areas of our country which have been subjected 
to mycological search have been found rich in M xomycetes, an 
our list of American species can and will undoubtedly be . 
enriched with both new and rare forms as the large unexplore 
districts are examined by students. 
_ Tn Fairmount Park; Philadelphia, eighty species have been 
found, and each year adds to the number. This result in so com 
paratively limited an area simply shows what may be eae 
other favorable localities with a little faithful and systematic work. 
