Massee. — The Fungus Flora of Neiv Zealand. 7 



On dead wood. Nortliern Island, New Zealand. Victoria, 

 New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, 

 Pegu, Nepal, Island of Aru, United States, Mexico, Cuba. 



Hard and woody, solitary or imbricated ; kno\vn by the 

 sulcate, roiigh pileus, and coloured flesh. 



Var. isidioides. Sjii., Polyporus isidioides, Berk., Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot., ii, p. 515 ; Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 178 ; Hdbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, p. 608 (called by a slip iridioides) ; Cooke, Austr. 

 Fung., p. 122 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 5131. 



Agreeing in habit and size with the type form ; differing 

 more especially in having the pileus rough, with elongated bristly 

 nodules behind. 



Although Dr. Cooke retains Polyporus isidiodes as a species 

 in the " Handbook of Australian Fimgi," after giving the diag- 

 nosis he says, " only a variety of P. scruposus," a statement 

 with which I entirely agree. 



Polyporus dichrous, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 364 ; Sacc, Sylh 

 vii. no. 5152; Austr. Fung., p. 123; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 p. 608. 



Thin, tough, soft, sessile, elfuso-reflexed, often imbricated, 

 2-3 in. wide, sometimes much larger, slightly silky, white ; 

 pores very shallow, minute, rounded, cinnamon-colour, 4-5 in 

 the space of 1 mm. 



On trunks. Northern Island, New Zealand. Victoria, 

 South Africa, Europe, United States. 



Often covering a large extent of surface, more or less re- 

 supinate, with numerous free, spreading margins or lobes. Al- 

 most like a Polystictus, but soft and not zoned. 



37. Femes, Fries. 



Pileus hard, covered with a rigid, crustaceous, zoneless, often 

 concentrically grooved cuticle ; tubes stratose. Perennial. 



Fomes, Fries, Nov. Symb., p. 31. Polyporus of old authors. 



The woody pileus with a cartilaginous cuticle not ornamented 

 with coloured zones, and the stratose tubes, stamp the present 

 genus. 



I. Ste)n lateral, someiiines very .short. 



Fomes lucidus, Fries, Nov. Svmb., p. 61 ; Fl. N.Z., ii, 177 ; 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 607 ; Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 128 ; Sacc, 

 Syll. vi, no. 5305. 



Pileus horizontal or oblique, flabelliform, subreniform, or 

 irregular in form, laterally stipitate, 8-15 cm. across, corky, 

 then hard and woody, sulcato-rugose, deep chestnut-red, or 



