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otherwise — root bulbous, or otherwise. All this will be the work of 

 a few moments, if you draw rapidly. 



The spores can be preserved by taking off the stem of the fungus and 

 lying it, gills down, on paper that has been washed over with a little 

 gum water, and dried, the white spored Agarics on black paper, 

 the colored spores on white paper, or, they may be placed on glass 

 slides and covered at once. 



The spores can be identified by writing on the paper the figures due 

 to the page upon which the specimen is drawn. These sketches can 

 be colored or not, at leisure, even roughly if there is not time for more. 



A very slight knowledge of the paint box will tell the pigments 

 required for pilens, gills, stem, etc. Write in a note below : Pilens, 

 burnt umbre, or bistre, for shades, as the case maybe. Yellow ochre, 

 or glaze with such and such colors, for high lights. Gills, stem, etc., 

 may in like manner be described. The habitat, also of great import- 

 ance, can be named in a note below, also the taste of the fungus, 

 whether mild, acrid, or bitter. These drawn specimens will be found 

 much more satisfactory than those dried in sand, much more convenient 

 than those kept in jars. 



M. E. B. 



Botany at the Centennial. 



Botany, in several of its branches, particularly in forestry and horti- 

 culture, had a conspicuous display at the Centennial Exposition. 



And, even in its purely scientific side, it was not neglected. Among 

 the exhioits of our own country we may mention the very large display 

 of ocean vegetation, the marine alg.ce, made by Prof. Farlow, in con- 

 nection with the Fish Commission exhibit, in the Government 

 Building. We may also include as botanical the very conspicuous 

 engravings and drawings of fungi made by Mr. Thomas Taylor, of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



In the Womens' Building was a very fine collection of marine alga. 

 of the New England coast, prepared by Maria H. Bray, of Gloucester, 

 Massachusetts. Also a remarkably full set of the land mosses ol 

 Ohio, prepared by Miss Jane Watson, of Massilon ; and, also, in the 

 same building an Herbarium of about six hundred species of the plants 

 of Illinois, very nicely prepared by Mrs. Hathaway, of Stevenson 



