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fungi of all kinds. It was then that our drying oven became a 
necessity as well as a convenience. Our camp stove was a fold- 
ing sheet-iron one with good draught well regulated. Over this 
we placed the 18 in. sheet-iron oven supported on metal legs and 
fitted with sliding shelves of wire net. Large fleshy specimens 
were placed on the lowest shelf and smaller ones on the shelves 
above. Boleti were thoroughly dried in this manner in from 
three to six hours. e oven was often left working over night 
or during a light rain. Many of the smaller fungi were placed 
in envelopes in the field and dried without removal : larger speci- 
mens, however, were more easily dried by leaving them entirely 
exposed to the current of air or by ha the paper bags con- 
taining them open at the top. The space about the stove was 
often utilized with ae results, ince ee if the plants were 
supported on slanting boards or within boxes facing the stove. 
I can heartily recommend an outfit of this kind to any one at- 
tempting the preparation of fleshy specimens in the field. It is 
quick, it is smokeless ; and both the stove and the oven occupy 
very few inches of space when folded. 
Most of the forests along the river and lake shores have been 
lumbered, leaving much dead and wounded timber, as ie as 
numerous very convenient trails for the collector. The w 
pine has been practically exterminated and few large trees o1 
hemlock remain, but spruce and balsam are abundant, both in 
pure forest and intermixed with other trees, and white cedar 
swamps are by no means rare. Amon paced: trees, the 
paper birch, the yellow Bie red maple on alder are common 
throughout, while poplar, elm, sugar ies and beech are found 
in many localities. Sphagnum bogs are comm Poplar has 
been cut in abundance for the eine mille ea birch for 
firewood 
Such being the character of the forest areas, one would expect 
to find in a favorable season a great variety of species among the 
fungi, and this is indeed the case, but not as they occur in Penn- 
sylvania and Virginia, where bushels of large agarics may at times 
e gathered in asingle grove. In the forests of boreal Maine 
there are no open oak and chestnut groves abounding in species 
