ON COLLECTING AND PREPARING FLESHY FUNG 
FOR THE HERBARIUM: 4 
EDWARD A. BuRT. 
(WITH PLATE XIV) 
Our North American flora is so rich and its territory : 
large, in comparison with the number of botanists engaged inils q 
study, that the knowledge of even the distribution of some lage _ 
classes of its plants is very inadequate, being based chiefly on wom 
covering comparatively limited regions. This is especially tue 
for the fleshy fungi ( Basidiomycetes and larger Ascomycetes), 
the larger number of which are rapidly putrescent and there 
fore not usually found in the collections of professional botat- : 
ical collectors and explorers, to whom we owe so much in other a 
Classes. The larger herbaria and exsiccati are also, for the 
which people who are not botanists would more gladly 
botanist’s knowledge than of the class Basidiomycetes ® 
there is probably no class of plants whose collection @ fe 
in one’s home locality can be carried on with greater interest’ 
a series of years, provided one has sufficient freedom duritg™ 
int out 
following years, It is the aim of the present paper to Po” 
* Read before the Vermont Botanical Club February 5, 1898. 
