In Utah, driving down the road with the plant press on a roof rack will often be very effective for drying plants. Placing the press over a heating vent is also effective. There are special techniques for pressing seaweeds. Basically, one puts the mounting paper in a pan of water and floats the seaweed onto the paper. Most seaweeds will glue themselves to the paper and make very attractive specimens.
Red algae are particularly beautiful when pressed.
Place wax paper or plastic between the seaweed and the newsprint or the seaweed will glue itself to the newsprint. Preparing the label There will be a computer program for you to use in the herbarium. Unless stated otherwise, use of the program is mandatory. This means that you should not leave doing your labels until the last minute because that is what other students will do. At first, using the computer program will be frustrating.