CHAPTER XIV: FUNGI FOR THE HERBARIUM 
THERE are no plants more difficult to preserve for an her- 
barium than the fleshy fungi, and yet my personal observation 
leads me to believe that there are many people who would be 
willing to undertake the task if they. knew how to set about it; 
and there is no class of plants in which the assistance of the 
amateur may help the botanist more than in this, provided that, 
at the time of gathering a specimen, full descriptive notes are 
made of all the characteristics of the plant. 
To aid one in quickly taking notes, it is well to have with 
one in the field some printed or written blanks. A convenient 
form is suggested by the following outline, which is the one 
used by the Boston Mycological Club: 
Species 
Collected by 
No. 
Locality 
Date 
COLLECTOR’S NOTES. 
N.B.—When collecting, be sure to get the whole plant, base and all, uninjured; 
and to get young as well as mature specimens. 
Note here at once the 
‘ Tree (kind; dead or living). 
Habitat. On { Ground (kind of soil), 
Place (wood, field, wet or dry, high land or low, etc.). 
Under and near what trees ? 
Manner of ees in clusters, troops, or czspitose [growing from one 
Growth. root]). 
Character. (Viscid, hygrophanous [transparent when moist], dry.) 
Smell. 
Taste. 
Spores. Colour. 
Norte.—If the plant is perishable, sketch and describe it fully at once, and look 
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