Fig. 953. 



COLUS HIRNUDINOSUS (?), FROM J. B. CLELAND, 

 AUSTRALIA (Fig. 953). This may be Colus hirnudinosus, but 

 there is some doubt. Cooke gives it in the Hand- 

 book, and a good figure (for he copied from Mon- 

 tagne). There is no specimen on which to base it 

 at Kew. From this dried specimen it does not 

 seem as clathroid as Colus hirnudinosus, but I 

 believe it is the same thing. I should like very 

 much to have a photograph of this Australian 

 plant made from fresh specimens. If it prove that 

 Colus hirnudinosus does occur in Australia, it is of 

 great interest, for at present it is only known from 

 the Mediterranean region. 



POLYSTICTUS BRUNEO-LEUCUS, FROM 

 J. B. CLELAND, AUSTRALIA (Fig. 954). This 

 is the first specimen I have ever gotten, and the 

 only other collection known to me is the type at 

 Kew. We present a photograph of the type (Fig. 

 954). It was from Tasmania. The character is 

 the thin, rigid, glabrous brown pileus and usually the contrast of 

 the white (or greyish) pores. 

 This contrast, however, is not 

 shown in this specimen, which 

 appears to be old and discolored. 

 Polyporus bruneo-leucus has 

 notably larger pores, but other- 

 wise exactly the same as Poly- 

 stictus planus (cfr. Note 358), a 

 rare plant of the United States 

 and Europe. I have a feeling 

 that they are the same thing, 

 merely geographical pore varia- 

 tions, but until the small pored 

 plant comes from Australasia we 

 would maintain both names. 

 Polyporus bruneo-leucus was 

 published by Berkeley in 1845. 

 Fries lists it in Nov. Symb. 

 1851, as bruneo-albus, either a 

 slip of the pen or an unwar- 

 ranted change. Saccardo com- 

 piles it under Fries' name, 

 though what reason Fries had 

 to change it, if done intention- 

 ally, I do not know. Fig . 954 



Z ? NARIU M, FROM J. B. CLELAND, AUS- 

 (Hg 955) Pileus sessile to a reduced base, thin, rigid, 

 smooth, reddish brown (Brussels Brown Ridgway), with 

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