General notes on botanical collecting. Dry collecting High country specimens most important. Fruiting bodies preferable but collect all. Label should give number, camp, habitat if possible, altitude and date. Labels placed inside envelope for mosses and between sheets when drying other plants. Number should be on outside of more envelopes also. Attached wood should be removed from mosses. After drying, envelope flaps should be pinned down. Specimens should include root and flower, if any; intermediate leaves may be removed. Shrubs should include flower and leaves. One fielding of Coleman lamps will dry one pack of specimens ?? After drying remove specimens from press and pack in brown paper. Package to be about 4 inches deep (10 cms) when pressed tight. Length of time required to dry mosses in envelopes is subject to conditions. (When plants are drying tighter straps and square of pack at intervals) Before closing package of dried specimens, pour in quantity of naphthaline. Formalin collecting Preportion 1 formalin to 10 water mixed in polyethylene bag. Plants between paper with corrugates at each end, are immersed for 24 hours Fluid should be drained off, specimens packed in muslin and brown paper. Drainage before final shipment. Labelling and numbering as with dry specimens.