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4. Do not break or cut off the fungus, but dig or cut it out 

 along with its substratum. This will enable mycologists to study 

 the method of insertion. 



5. Specimens of different localities or hosts should be kept 

 separately, even if the fungi seem to belong to the same species. 



Special. 



1. Leaf-fungi do not require much preparation. The leaves 

 may be put between sheets of newspaper and pressed and dried in 

 the ordinary way. Do not forget the name of the host-plant. 



2. Fungi of hard Cwoody or carbonaceous^ consistency should 

 be dried in the open air. Keep them in a dry well-aired room 

 for two or three days. This simple wa}^ of preparing specimens 

 will always do for Thelephoraceee, Clavariacese, Gastromycetes, 

 Discomycetes and Hypocreales. 



If enveloped in paper or kept in boxes before thoroughly drj^, 

 the specimens will be attacked and spoilt hj moulds. 



3. Big specimens of Polyporacese should be treated in the 

 same manner. It often happens that fine specimens are packed 

 and sent to Europe, but on their arrival nothing is to be 

 found but a powdery mass. The fungus has become a prey of 

 insects. 



The practical instruction given by C. G. Lloyd in his ' Mycol. 

 Notes, p. 36, ' might be useful in this connection : — 



" The principal trouble that many have in making collec- 

 tions of fungi is that specimens are apt to be eaten by insects. 

 This is very discouraging, but we have learned now how 

 to avoid it in a very simple manner. In the old collections 

 where specimens are pasted on sheets they have to be poisoned 

 with a solution of corrosive sublimate and alcohol, but this 

 is very objectionable from the fact that it changes materially 

 the condition of the specimens and they are not in their 

 natural condition after going through the poisoning process. 

 It was formerl}'^ my custom when I received specimens to sub- 

 mit them to the fumes of carbon bisulphide, which is fatal to 

 insect life, but I have found that while it may kill the insects 

 in the specimens it does not kill the chr}'salis, and specimens 



