JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. IX. January, 1908. No. 97. 
THE COLLECTIONS OF FUNGI. 
The fungus collections of the garden are arranged in two 
series, one in the museum of systematic botany on the second 
floor of the museum building, and the other in the mycological 
herbarium room on the floor above. The former is for the bene- 
fit of the general public, the latter for the use of students only. 
The public museum collection, consisting at present of about 
700 separate exhibits, is insta in 20 cases and 50 swinging 
frames, arranged in ecblocks a as shown in the accompany- 
a plan (Fig. 1). Sp mounted on blocks or cardboard 
in fames, or are s caresenved in alcohol or formalin. Photo- 
Soke and colored drawings form an important part of the col- 
lection. Two cases, with 70 exhibits, are devoted to the smuts 
and rusts; and two cases, with 45 exhibits illustrate the coral- 
fungi, the hedgehog tuner and closely related groups. The large 
and conspicuous polypores fill six cases, with 185 exhibits ; 
while the gill-fungi, very perishable plants, occupy at present only 
one case, with 55 exhibits. Many colored drawings of agarics, 
however, are now being mounted in the swinging frames. The 
puffballs are well represented in a separate case by 45 exhibits. 
The chestnut disease so prevalent about New York is also ex- 
hibited in a single case. Four cases are devoted to the lichens, 
with 120 exhibits; and the sac-fungi and imperfect forms, with 
over 100 exhibits, are shown in the remaining three cases. 
The study collection of these plants, consisting of about 160,- 
000 specimens, has been recently removed to a large room over 
