i$] ON COLLECTING AND PREPARING FLESHY FUNGI 181 
be stored temporarily in paper bags or boxes, one species col- 
lection to a bag or box, and with each is kept its label, notes, ~ 
and spore print. 
PREPARING THE ROUGH-DRIED PLANTS FOR THE HERBARIUM.— 
During the process of drying, many fungi bend and curl into 
very unnatural and irregular shapes. In their rough dried con- 
dition they cannot be distributed in the sheets of an herbarium. 
They have first to be moistened and then flattened and kept in 
that condition until they are dry again. This part of the work 
may be done at one’s convenience. 
I moisten the plants by placing them in a moist chamber, 
leaving them there until sufficient moisture has been absorbed 
“o that they can be bent without breaking. I use for this pur- 
pose a dry goods case made of matched boards. The inside 
dimensions of the case are 27 X 20x16" deep. It is large 
‘nough so that two dryers with their loads of dried fungi may 
® placed side by side in the bottom. Cloths dipped in water 
A aang out so as not to drip, are hung ina curtain-like man- 
Nr inside the case against the side walls. Another wet cloth 
ie across the open top of the box and the board cover is 
P sie oidgl this. Most of the smaller species absorb sufficient 
_ two or three hours, but large species of Boletus, 
ie. a Russula may need to be left in the moist cham- 
ght or even longer. A damp cellar will serve the 
Sie of a moist box, 
the “ee a condition the stem and pileus may be bent by 
may Bees that both lie in the same plane, and the pileus 
Cate inst ie a more natural form than it assumed in drying. 
ities ‘a olay to do no violence to any part, nor to 
aes amelle from the stem. When shaped for bcitd 
This ig = plants must be prevented from curling in drying. 
_ . -omplished by placing them in folded sheets of unsized 
Wei h tween driers, placing these in a pile with the least 
= the Pile sufficient t t curli This is not 
‘Sing the inte ent to Lausige sons ing. ee 
ering Oa oe that term is used with reference to Ho 
; it is Simply preventing their curling out of shape 
