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be kept in drawers or boxes. Each specimen should be at once 

 labelled, and numbered, and the locality it came from, and date of 

 finding, should be noted on the label. It is desirable also to take 

 notes, at the time of finding, of the color and any other peculiari- 

 ties, which are likely to be lost in drying. The Agarics, and 

 fleshy Fungi should be preserved in two ways, a specimen should 

 be dried entire between papers, care being taken to change them 

 frequently, and vertical sections should be made of other specimens 

 quite through the stem and pileus, dividing it into three parts, 

 whereof the centre slice will exhibit the inner substance of the 

 stem and pileus, the width, and form of the gills, &c, whilst the 

 outer sections will show the nature of the clothing of stem and 

 pileus, and the ring, where one exists : the half pileus from one of 

 the outer sections, if the gills are carefully removed, will give a 

 good idea of the form of pileus when viewed from above. It is 

 desirable to make sections of individuals in different stages of 

 growth. The papers should be lightly pressed, to avoid at the 

 same time too great contraction in drying, and any crushing of the 

 cells by too heavy a degree of pressure. Fungi that are clothed 

 with gluten must be partly dried, before pressure, and the papers 

 changed before there is time for adhering. Brittle species, as some 

 PezizEe, should be allowed to wither before they are subjected to 

 pressure. Agarics and Boleti, the colour of whose spores is used as 

 a means of discrimination, may be placed, on arriving at home, 

 with their hymenium downwards on pieces of white, or black paper, 

 when the colour of their spores will be seen. Truffles should be 

 dried in both ways, i.e. entire in the air, and in sections under 

 pressure. Yery delicate Fungi, as minute Pezizae, and Myxogas- 

 ters, moulds, &c, should be placed and kept in small thin card- 

 board cells, as the pressure of the herbarium would soon destroy 

 their characters. These boxes may be obtained of any requisite 

 size and depth, at a cheap rate, of Miss Potts, 34, Hatton Garden, 

 Holborn. The boxes may be gummed on to pieces of paper, and 

 pinned into the herbarium. The hard woody Fungi, such as 

 Sphceriae, &c, are easily preserved, and they keep their characters 

 for many years. The only precautions requisite, are to poison the 



