OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI— continued. 



ia Liuii. V. 533 (1830). 



97.3 

 97-t 

 975 



976 



P.r.mchcs ... ... I Densely tufted. Caps conical. Stems smooth, united at base. 



Trunks ... ... Tawny yellow, minute, peziza-like, shortly stalked. 



Rotten wood ... Cap ochrey, then rusty, turberculose, circular. Stem oblique, of same 



colour. 

 Wood ... ... Tufted and gregarious. Cap trenielloid, often oblique, orange. Stem 



slender, white. 

 Rotten wood ... Bell shaped, att.aclied behind, raembr.auous, gelatinous, entirely dark 



red, rather thick, leathery when dry. 



Grev. XVIII. 87 (1890). 



978 I ... 1 ... I ... I V. 1 



Wood 



Gelatinous, large, stalked. Cap deeply funnel shaped, thick. Stem 

 short, thick, expanded disc at base. 



987 



V. i N.S.W. 



Q. 



Wood 

 Trunks ... 



Trunks and branches 

 Rotten wood chiefly of 

 dwellings, in cellars 

 Trunks ... 

 Branches of Acacia 



Rotten wood 



I'arasitic on Hi/mcno- 

 chiEte 



Expanded, thin, membranous, adherent, golden yellow. 



Fan shaped, viscid, smooth, almost orange coloured when fresh. Margin 



notched, rough, intlexeJ, flesh yellow. 

 Expanded, soft, rather papery, shaggy beneath, white. 

 Large, spongy to fleshy, rusty yellow, web-like or velvety below. 



Attached, fleshy, somewhat gel.atinous, thin, slightly downy. 



Broadly expanded, membranous, white, hyaline when dry, like a thin 



pellicle. 

 Crustaceons, attached, tliin, pale, then reddish, spreading in wavy 



manner. 

 Papery, forming very thin irregular yellowish-brown patches, nearly 



white at margin. 



Heart wood of various 

 Euealypts 



This is the sterile state of a wood-destroying fungus, prolmbly belong- 

 ing to I'olyporacea;, and consisting of thick dense leathery sheets like 

 chamois leather. 



