Field Notes
The field notes which may be taken upon the collection will depend on circumstances.
If one goes to the sorting room soon after the collection is made, so that notes can be made there before the more delicate specimens dry, few notes will answer in the field, and usually
one is so busy collecting or hunting for specimens there is not much inclination to make extended notes in the field.
But it is quite important to note the _habitat_ and _environment_, i. e., the place
where they grow, the kind and character of the soil, in open field,
roadside, grove, woods, on ground, leaves, sticks, stumps, trunks,
rotting wood, or on living tree, etc.
It is very important also that different kinds be kept separate. The student will recognize the
importance of this and other suggestions much more than the new “fungus
hunter.”