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placed in a basket by themselves, as they should be the fist — 
identified and dried, or many will be lost by decay. The pack — 
ages of less putrescent fleshy fungi may be kept fresh in fair 
condition for two or three days after being collected, but the dit — 
ficulty in their study and determination increases with the tim 
they are kept. - 
COLLECTING THE SPOREs.— While distributing the packages 
from the collecting basket, at least one plant in each package — 
should be set for spores, which may be collected very easily até : 
without the sacrifice of a plant. Sheets of white paper anda 
black paper without a glossy surface are needed. If there § 
reason for believing that the plant bears white spores, a circular 
disk of the diameter of the pileus is cut with scissors from tit — 
black paper; this disk is then slit radially from the margin ® — 
the center, and enough of the paper is cut away about the centet 
to give an opening of the diameter of the stem just underneath 
the pileus. The paper disk is then placed underneath the piless 
in contact with it and.with, the stem passing through the ai 
ing made for it. The plant is then placed in erect position if 
the pile from which it was taken, and the other plants of the pile 
are arranged about this plant in such manner as to support : 
erect position and also to hold the paper disk close up agaist 
the pileus. The four corners of the wrapping sheet are ©” 
brought together above the pile of plants and twisted tog oe 
in the manner already described. The package of plants § 
placed in the proper basket. | 
If the fungus is believed to have colored spo 
cut from white paper. When the color of the Jamellae 
doubt as to the color of the spores, set one plant bs 
spores and another for colored spores. In the case of 
of Clavaria (exact knowledge of the color of the spore ® 
sary for specific determination in this genus) and of e 
lateral stemmed pilei, it is merely necessary to lay OO 
plants hymenial side downward on the spore paper in 
and to enfold all again with the wrapper. The vidas 
be obtained gummed and the spores will become im 
res, the 
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