ON EXHIBITING FUNGI 
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and other leading mycologists. A week’s foray is held every 
autumn, and transactions are published annually. The 
honorary secretary is Carleton Rea, Esq., B.C.L., M.A., 
34, Foregate Street, Worcester. 
EXHIBITING FUNGI 
A few notes on the autumnal exhibition of fungi at the 
Haslemere Educational Museum may not be without inter¬ 
est to the general reader and may be helpful to the teacher. 
The specimens are arranged in a long, roomy, and well- 
lighted shed. By keeping the windows and doors open, and 
placing pans of charcoal about, the strong smell which 
always emanates from a large collection of fungi is not very 
pronounced. 
All are placed on plates and saucers. Many of the fleshy 
kinds, notably Boleti and Amanitse, are changed daily. 
With those which grow upon wood—also the Hygrophori 
and other pasture species—a large piece of the matrix is 
brought away and kept moist in a dish ; so treated, they 
keep fresh for a considerable time, and young plants de¬ 
velop. “ Eggs ” of Stinkhorn fungi are embedded in damp 
sand, and placed on a ledge outside a closed window. 
Trestle tables are used; the largest is reserved for white- 
spored agarics, and smaller ones for each of the other 
spore groups. On each of these tables large descriptive 
labels, also cards showing the spore-mass of some typical 
species, are placed. Other tables are allotted to the Gastro- 
mycetes, Ascomycetes, and other groups. This arrange¬ 
ment enables the main principles of classification to be 
demonstrated easily to students and visitors. 
Serviceable printed labels for many common species are 
obtained by cutting up two copies of the “ Guide to the 
Sowerby Models of Fungi at the British Museum of Natural 
History.” 
