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smooth with age, margin whitish, hard, 1-2-5 cm. broad ; pores 

 pallid, very much decurrent or running down the bark, more 

 or less elongated, rather large ; dissepiments very thick. 



On trunks and decaying wood. New Zealand. Adelaide, 

 South Australia. 



Eemarkable for the very thick dissepiments or walls sepa- 

 rating the pores. Might with almost equal propriety have been 

 placed in the genus Dcedalea. 



41. Daedalea, Pers. 



Pileus woody or corky ; pores elongated and irregularly sinuous ; 

 dissepiments or walls of tubes thick, flexible. 



Dcedalea, Persoon, Syn., p. 449. 



Distinguished by the wide labyrinthiform pores, with thick, 

 corky, and elastic walls. 



Dcedalea pendida. Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 180, tab. cv, fig. 4 ; 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 610 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 6394. 



Imbricated ; pileus 3-6 cm. broad and high, sessile, attached 

 by the back and base, pendulous, irregularly cup-shaped, with 

 the opening downwards, thin, flexible, strigose, reddish -grey ; 

 hymenium lining the cavity, pinkish-lilac, sparingly and vaguely 

 scattered with tooth-like projections, and irregular shallow pores. 



On dead wood. Ngawakatatara, New Zealand. 



" Imbricated, coriaceous. Pilei 1| in. long, pendulous, bursse- 

 form, pale reddish-grey, tinged with lilac, sparingly zoned, 

 clothed with short, strigose, matted brown hairs ; margin 

 tomentose. Hymenium tinged with lilac and reddish-grey, 

 sparingly porous, with irregular tooth-like dissepiments, which 

 are finely setulose. This, if fully grown, is scarcely a Dcedalea 

 in its characters, having more the hymenium of a Radulum ; 

 but it is evidently allied to such species as D. unicolor ; and 

 though the dissepiments are irregular, there are very evident 

 pores, while in some parts there are as evident teeth. The 

 species is at any rate undescribed, whatever may be thought of 

 the genus." (Berk.) 



From the foregoing quotation it will be learned that the 

 fungus imder consideration is very imperfectly known, and, as it 

 has not been collected since the type was fo\md by Colenso, 

 much remains to be learnt before its systematic position can be 

 determined with certainty, 



Dcedalea confragosa, Pers., Syn., p. 501 ; Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 180 ; 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 610 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 6347. 



Pileus sessile, horizontal, semicircular or subreniform, at- 

 tached by a stout base, almost fiat above, reddish-brown, in- 



