CHAPTER VI 
ON COLLECTING, EXHIBITING, AND PRESERVING FUNGI 
HE equipment for the field need not be expensive. It 
X is necessary to be provided with the following : 
(1) A pocket lens. 
(2) A notebook and pencil. 
(3) A strong and serviceable pocket-knife. 
(4) A stout chisel, for detachment of woody specimens. 
The same will be useful for getting up terrestrial species, it 
being essential in all cases to secure the complete fungus. 
Some collectors prefer to carry a kind of trowel with a blade 
about 5x1^ inches. 
(5) A collecting tin, or vasculum. The mycologist’s 
vasculum should be deeper than those usually supplied to 
botanists, Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster* will supply 
any size to order. Mine is 16x8x4^ inches—a very 
handy size. A cross-handled basket should be carried when 
collecting a large series of agarics for exhibition purposes. 
(6) Some small tins for fragile and minute species. Tins 
are preferable to cardboard or chip boxes, which quickly 
collapse when moist. 
(7) A hand-saw with adjustable blade (supplied by any 
ironmonger), for sawing off branches and woody specimens 
not easily manipulated with the pocket-knife. 
There is a widespread but erroneous idea that fungi are 
only to be found during the autumn months. The majority 
of fleshy species are at their best from September to Novem- 
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