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mouthed bottles or fruit jars# The contents may he numbered in pencil, 
but the numbers should also be written on a label outside the jar, since 
the inside labels sometimes stain too deeply to be legible. Fruits of 
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breadfruit, corms of taro and similar material may be photographed or 
described. For Pandanus, gather a few of the drupes, record color, and 
photograph or describe the aggregate head of drupes; also, gather a few 
mature leaves. 
B. SPOKE PLAITS. 
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The field note-food is designed primarily for seed plants; a 
few alterations, however, will adapt the record sheet for spore plants, 
such as ferns, or records may be written on the reverse side of the yellow 
sheets and numbered to correspond to the specimen. 
1. Ferns and fern allies. — The field note book sheet may be 
used by crossing out ^flowers” and fruitsand entering descriptive noes 
Collect as complete a specimen as possible including rhizome and having 
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both fertile and unfertile fronds. Large fronds may be divided and 
pressed in successive order. Adiagram should be made of fronds too 
large to press. 
£• Mosses and Liverworts y - Collect fully mature fruiting plants 
of the mosses; but fruiting specimens are not always necessary for liver¬ 
worts. Fleshy liverworts should be preserved in formaline or alcohol. 
If fruiting liverworts are found they should be preserved in formaline or 
alcohol. 
S. Algae.- Preserve in two percent formaline or in alcohol; 
record whether fresh water or marine, and the substratum ot attached 
forms. Describe method of attachment, and secure fruiting specimens 
if possible. Becord depth of water in which they are found. Fragilemts 
of coral reef bearing algae may be broken off and dried. 
