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and hearts a bright new memory, we had succeeded in our quest, we had found 

 the Luminous Moss, and though, from that day to this, it has not been our good 

 fortune to again discover this object of so many wanderings and wonderings, that 

 one find has left us inclined to consider the word Schistostega a magical word, a 

 talismanic word, a "name to conjure with!" 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



A HANDY METHOD FOR THE MOUNTING OF MOSSES 



T. G. YUNCKER 



It is believed that the method of mounting mosses and other small her- 

 barium specimens described here has several advantages over the methods 

 ordinarily practised in herbaria. The writer first saw it used by Professor J. 

 P. Naylor, Physicist at DePauw University, in the mounting of the moss col- 

 lections in his private herbarium and was impressed with its advantages. He 

 has since used it with his own mosses and has found that it works admirably. 

 It is with the hope that it may be of use to others that the method is described. 



Fig. 2 



The method consists of folding pieces of paper into the form of envelopes 

 so that when mounted the specimen is held securely, is visible, and at the same 

 time can be easily removed for further study should that be necessary. Small 

 specimens mounted openly on herbarium sheets are frequently pried off and lost 

 by the shuffling together of the sheets. Also, specimens mounted in envelopes 

 are apt to be broken by frequent removal, oftentimes unnecessary if one could 

 get a glimpse beforehand of what the envelope contained. This new method 

 eliminates these difficulties. 



