Art. XIV. — A iieiv Australian Stone-7iiakmg Fungus. 

 Laccocephalum basilapiloides, McAlp. and Tepp. 



(Plate X.). 

 By D. McAlpine and J. G. 0. Tepper, F.L.S. 



[Eead 12th July, 1S94. 



ERRATA. 



On page 167, in the tenth line from the top, for 44-50 in. read 44-50 yu-, 

 and, in the eleventh line from the top, for 3 in. read 3//.. 



On page 168, in the seventh line from the top, for Herotes read Xerotes. 



consisting of closely-packed, pai-allel, cylindrical tubes, distinctly 

 differentiated, but not separable, from sporophore ; openings of 

 tubes sub-rotund or oval ; hymenium lining the cavities of the 

 tubes, spoi'es large, spherical, coloured. 



This genus differs from Folyporus, to which it seems most 

 nearly allied, in being hard and woody from the first, in the 

 peculiarly pitted pileus and in the character of the spores. 

 Name from the characteristic pitted surface of the pileus — A.aKKos, 

 a pit and Ke^aAr;, the head. 



Laccocephalum basilapiloides, McAlp. and Tepp. 



Solitary. Pileus woody, irregularly concave in the middle, 

 remainder convex (concavo-convex), 3J - 3| in. in dia., about 

 ^ in. in thickest part, brownish fawn, surface pitted, pits in the 

 middle relatively small, conical, irregularly scattered, surrounding 



