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INDEX. 
DIA 
Diatomacese, filamentous, 13, 
34; fossil, 12, 13; free, 14; 
frondose, 14, 34; parasitic, 
13; stipitate, 14, 30 
Digger, useful form of, 158 
note. 
Dry rot, 116 
Drying paper, 161 
E NVELOPE to hold Diatoms, 
^ &c. 34 
Equisetacese, 157 
F ERNS and flowering plants, 
154; implements for col- 
lecting, 158 ; to examine, 172 ; 
to prepare, 161 
Front and side views of a Dia- 
tom, 38 
Fungi, best season for collecting, 
116 ; characteristics of, 123, 
126; implements for collect- 
ing, 117; to collect spores, 
129 ; to draw, 129 ; to pre- 
serve, 122; where found, 115 
Fungi, brand, 116; bunt, 122; 
dry rot, 116; mildew, 121; 
mould, 116; muscardine, 116, 
122; parasitical on flies, 116, 
122; on gold fish, 122; on 
insects, 116 ; on plants, 117; 
on the silkworm, 122; smut, 
116, 121 
n ERSTENBERGER'S method 
VT of cleaning and propagating 
Diatoms, 25 
Gum arabic, to be poisoned before 
using, 179 note ; to fix Diatoms 
with, 29 
H ANTZSCRS preservative 
fluid, 54 
Herbarium, its object, 174; to 
form, 174; to number and 
catalogue, 189 ; to preserve,. 
190, 194 
T 
NCINERATION, 43 
L ABEL, form of, 1 85, 186 
Labelling of specimens, 
180 
Laminar ise, to preserve, 100 
Lichens, characteristics of, 132 ; 
to collect, 134; to prepare, 
134 ; where found, 133 
Lime in Algae, &c., to be got rid 
of, 75, 84, 102, 113 
M ildew, 121 
Mosses and their allies, 
characteristics of, 139, 142, 
150; fructification of, 142, 
145 ; implements for collect- 
ing, 141 ; to prepare, 145 ; to- 
preserve, 150 ; where found, 
139 
Mould, 116 
Munro’s method of cleaning Dia- 
toms, 25 
Muriatic acid, to clean Diatoms 
with, 18 
Muscardine of the silkworm, 116, 
122 
"YTITRIC acid, to clean Diatoms 
-Li with, 18, 49 
O KEDEN’S method of cleaning 
Diatoms, 25 
Oscillatoriae, characteristics of, 
76; colours of, 76; meaning 
of the name, 76 ; to prepare, 
77 ; to separate Diatoms from, 
1 7 where found, 7 6 
