186 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ance 
space for future additions, I think of poisoning a portion of the 
herbarium, consisting of groups of genera least troubled by 
insects, and keeping this portion in the ordinary herbarium 
pigeon-holes. 
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, MIDDLEBURY, VT. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV. 
Fic. 1. Collecting basket. 
Fic. 2. Drying tray of galvanized wire of 4 ™ mesh. | 
Fic. 3. Insect-proof tin box for storing the mounted fungi. This # 
intended to take the place of the pigeon-hole in an herbarium case. 
Fic. 4. Sketch of a species sheet of Lactarius trivialis Tt. ™ 
gracilis Pk, from my herbarium, showing four collections each mounted @® 
a card and the cards pinned to the sheet. The plants of each collection at 
loose in their respective packets, with the exception of that at the upper let 4 
hand corner of the sheet where one plant has been mounted outside te 
packet on the upper part of the card, and with the exception of the collec ; 
at the lower right hand corner where a set of sectional preparations ® 
gummed paper is mounted on the upper part of the card. 
