Massee.- — The Fungus Flora of New Zealand. 15 



On dead brandies. Northern Island, New Zealand. Ma- 

 lacca. 



About 2 mm. thick, forming well - defined white crusts 

 2-10 cm. long. 



Poria corticola, Fries, Svst. Myc, i, p. 385 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, 

 no. 6093 ; Austr. Fung., p. 156. 



White, then pallid, inseparable, often forming broad, thin, 

 firm patches ; not unfrequently more or less sterile (without 

 pores) ; pores naked, very shallow, small, roundish. 



On dead bark. New Zealand. Queensland, Victoria, South 

 Australia, Europe, United States, Brazil. 



Position uncertain. 



Po'ypoms diffissus, Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 180 ; Berk., Hdbk. 



N.Z. Flora, p. 610. 



Fleshy, red, at length separating from the matrix, pores 

 small, dissepiments thin, the membranaceous edge minutely 

 toothed. 



In the charred inside of a Fagus. New Zealand. 



" Resupinate, efEused, fleshy, of a bright red, at length tear- 

 ing away from the matrix and leaving part of the substance 

 behind ; pores small ; dissepiments thin ; edge membrana- 

 ceous, slightly toothed. This is probably a resupinate form of 

 some anodermeous species, which has not at present been ob- 

 served. Its bright colour, however, makes it very remarkable, 

 on which account it is inserted here, though the specimen is by 

 no means in a satisfactory state." (Berk.) 



No specimen exists at Kew, hence Berkeley's account, given 

 above, cannot be supplemented. If this should prove to be a 

 good species it would have to be knowai as Poria difissa. 



40. Trametes, Fries. 



Pileus corky or woody ; tubes penetrating unequally into the 



flesh of the pileus ; pores roundish or more or less elongated 



radially. 



Trametes, Fries, Epicr., p. 488. 



Trametes is intermediate between Dcedalea and FomeSy 

 differing from the former in the rounded or only slightly elon- 

 gated pores, and from the latter in the tubes running up into 

 the flesh of the pileus at different levels. 



Trametes epitephra, Berk., Journ. Linn. Sec. (Bot.), xiii, p. 165 

 (1873) ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 6240 ; Austr. Fung., p. 159. 



Imbricated ; pileus hoof-shaped, with a few more or less 

 prominent ridges, ashy -brown, coarsely velvety, becoming almost 



