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not easily defined. It is thinner, with scarcely any tint of red, and the gills are nearly twice as numerous. Dr. 
Hooker's specimens have the pileus even, and the gills pallid. —Puate CLXXXII. Fig. 2; a, plant of nat. size. 
Gen. XI. SCHIZOPHYLLUM, Fr. 
Aridus, excarnis. Lamella coriaceæ, ramoso-flabelliformes, acie longitudinaliter fissa, lamellulis discretis 
extrorsum revolutis. 
The split gills distinguish this genus from every species of the Agaricinous group except 4. schizophyllus, from 
which the habit, substance, and whole character at once separate it. It appears to be rare in Tasmania, as might 
be supposed from the very European type of almost all its species. (Name from oof, to clean, and $vAAov, a leaf.) 
1. Schizophyllum commune (Fr. Ep. p. 403). 
Haz. On dead wood, J. D. H. 
It does not oceur in the other collections. No species of Lenzites have yet been discovered, and the genus is 
also absent from New Zealand, except under the tropical form of L. repanda. 
Gen. XII. BOLETUS, I. 
Hymenophorum ab hymenio prorsus discretum, nec in tramam descendens; tubuli ab hymenophoro 
secedentes. 
This genus, which contains many species, is in the series Polyporei what Agaricus is in Agaricinei, exhibiting 
at the same time the same loose connection between the hymenium and pileus as Pazillus. Exotie species are but 
little known, but those which have been noticed often exceed in beauty European forms. Two only have been dis- 
tinguished in Tasmania, but there is evidence of other forms. (Name from Boletus, a mushroom ; itself formed from 
BoMrqs.) 
1. Boletus fruticicola (Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. p. 574). 
Has. On the roots of shrubs, Gunn 
9. Boletus megalosporus (Berk.); pileo plano subalutaceo, stipite deorsum incrassato areolato 
monticuloso sursum reticulato, poris incarnatis, sporis maximis uni-triseptatis. (TAB. CLXXXII. Fig. 3.) 
Has. On the ground, principally under trees: Cheshunt, Archer. 
Pileus 4 inches across, flat but waved, tan-coloured, tinged with umber. Stem 2 inches high, bulbous, pale 
tan-coloured, reticulated above, below divided into pulvinate areolee. Tubes rose-coloured. Spores oblong, uni-tri- 
septate, „4, inch long, soo broad.—Unfortunately no specimens have been preserved; the exact affinities cannot 
therefore be indicated, though the species is probably near Boletus alutarius. The large spores and very peeuliar 
stem, with other characters, will at once point out the species.— PLATE CLXXXII. Fig. 3; a, plant, nat. size ; 
b, spore, magnified. 
Gen. XIII. POLYPORUS, Fr. 
sed cum eisdem in stratum proprium seu discolor 
Hymenophorum inter poros in tramam descendens, ym 
haud separabiles, primitus obsoleti seu minu- 
mutatum. Pori cum pilei substantia contigui, a se invicem 
tissimi. 
An enormous genus, containing many truly tropical species, of which scarcely one enters into the Tasmanian 
Flora. As in the ‘Flora of New Zealand,’ I retain the divisions proposed by Fries in his * Epierisis,’ without how- 
ever venturing any opinion contrary to his later views. (Name from vows, many, and mopos, a pore.) 
