BY J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 863 



Stereum membranaceum Fries, (syn., S. papyrinum Mont. 

 — Lloyd). — In identifying specimens of this species for us, Lloyd 

 says : — " It does not seem to be in Cooke's compilation, but it 

 is a very common and wide-spread, tropical species. The hyme- 

 nium is densely covered with pale (almost hyaline) setse." 



This purple-brown, usually mostly resupinate, species is very 

 common in the Sydney district, on fallen logs and old stumps. 

 The pileus, often ill-developed, is hairy, obscurely zoned, and 

 greyish-bi'own ; the hymenium rather tuberculose, and dark 

 purplish to light purplish-brown. 'J'he cystidia are brownish, 

 acuminate to somewhat clavate, rough, 5L120 x 8"5-10'4jU. Spores 

 colourless, 7-8'5 x 3-5/x. On dead shrub, Long Bay, Sydney (J. 

 B. Cleland; September, 1913); Sydney (J.B.C ; various collec- 

 tions); Kew, North Coast (J.B.C; October, 1915); Botanic 

 Gardens, Sydney, on fence-rails (E Cheel; June, 1907); Pens- 

 hurst, on Melaleuca linariifolia (E. Cheel; June, 1907); Leura 

 (A. A. Hamilton; January, 1912); Drouin, Gippsland (C. U. 

 Brittlebank: October, 1916). 



Stereum illudens Berk., (syn., S. spiniyerum — Lloyd, Letter 

 No.5], Note 155).— The type-specimens were collected by Drum- 

 mond (No. 158), probably in Western Australia (Hooker's London 

 Journ. Bot., iv., p. 59, 1845). It has since been recorded for 

 Sealer's Cove, Wangaratta, Fifth Creek, and Port Darwin (Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, Bot., xiii., p. 168, 1873). Specimens, collected in 

 this State, have also been identified by Lloyd (Letter No.60, 

 Note 346), who states that <S'. spiniyerum is a synonym based 

 on young specimens, and adds " the hyaline, spiny cystidia (den- 

 drophysen) are entirely different from the coloured sette of 

 Hymenochoite." This is a common species in New South Wales, 

 with a zoned, dark brown to palish-Vjrown pileus, with light 

 chestnut hairs covering the ridges. The undersurface, when 

 moist, is smooth, slightly wavy, of a peculiar pui'plish greyish- 

 brown, with a paler yellowish-brown edge, when dry pale grey. 

 The colourless cystidia are subclavate, rough with projections, 

 17-35 X 3"5/x, occasionally to 6/x. Spores elongated, colourless, 

 7-10"4 x3-6/A. We have a fine series of specimens from the 

 following localities : — Peakhurst (W. Buckingham; July, 1899); 



