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has been identified as this form. New South Wales : Kendall, "a thick form with 

 surface smoother and darker than usual" (identified by Lloyd, No. 497). 



303. Poh'sticfus ochraceus, Pers. New South Wales: Jenolan. Caves. 

 November, numerous slightly curved spores, 6 to 68 x 2 /x (identified by Lloyd, 

 No. 615) ; ?. young plants, Blue Mountains, May (Lloyd, No. 201). 



304. Polystictus hirsutidus, Willd. Queensland : Bunya Mountains, October ; 

 Imbil, August. New^ South Wales : Dorrigo, January ; Kendall, August ; 

 Landsdowne. September; Comboyne, September; National Park, March, May. 



FOMES. 



305 (iii., 185). Fames rohustus, Karst. Queensland: Stradbroke Island, 

 Moreton Bay, September, 1919, numerous subspherical hyaline spores, 6 to 7 /a, 

 no setae ; Imbil State Forest, near Gympie, August, 1920, occasional oval hyaline 

 spores, 5-6 /a, a few stout brown setae. South Australia : Mr. Formby, per 

 Prof. Howchin, numerous hyaline subspherical spores, 7 to 75 /x, no setae, con- 

 text when young near Yellow Ochre (xv.), when old near Russet (xv.) ; at 

 base of sweet almond, Beaumont, Adelaide, May, a few spores hyaline or nearly 

 so, 6 to 65 jx, no setae, context near Sudan Brown (iii.), younger parts near 

 Yellow Ochre (xv.) ; at base of Rhamnus alatcrniis, L., Beaumont, January, 

 spores subspherical, hyaline, 5-5 to 6 jx, no setae ; on dead mother stump of 

 coppiced Euc. odorata, F. v. M., National Park, May, numerous subspherical 

 or a little irregular hyaline spores, 55 to 65 ix., occasionally 8 /a, no setae ; on 

 Euc. oleosa, F. v. M., Monarto South, May, context Sudan Brown (iii.). 



306 (iii., 185). Fomes setulosiis, Petch. South Australia: x\t base of Euc. 

 rostrata, Schl., National Park. May. a few^ spherical hyaline spores, 6-5 fi, 

 numerous brown pointed setae with swollen bases, 19 x 65 /x, context a little 

 darker than Raw Sienna (iii.). 



307. Fomes Calkinsii, Murrill. Lloyd places this species, described from 

 Florida, under Section 69 of his Fomes monograph (context brown, setae none, 

 spores hyaline). He has identified specimens for us (No. 621) collected on the 

 Bunya Mountains, Queensland, in October, 1919, and adds, "A very imusual 

 plant, but the same, as far as I can note, as our Florida species." The numerous 

 spores present in some of our plants vary in colour from nearly hyaline to 

 markedly brown, are subspherical to pear-shaped, and measure 5-2 to 6 /*, 6 x 52 ^, 

 68 X 6 fx, 8-5 X 5-2 jx. Setae were not seen. Further specimens were collected 

 on Casuarina torulosa, Ait., at Imbil, near Gympie, Queensland, in Augvist, 

 1920. Spores pallid to yellow-brown, irregular to rather triangular, 5-5 to 72 /*, 

 no setae seen. 



308. Fomes torulosus. Pers. This species comes under Section 70 of 

 Lloyd (context brown, setae present, spores hyaline). In identifying specimens 

 (No. 622) for us, from the Bunya Mountains, Queensland, collected in October, 



1919, Lloyd says that the salient features are the soft velutinate pore, mouths, 

 the ventricose setae, and the pileus ridges. Specimens were abundant in this 

 locality and were usually applanate. The largest specimen measures 16 inches 

 laterally, 11 inches in depth, and 6 inches vertically. Most of the spores are 

 deeply tinted brown, but some are pale, subsphei-ical, 4 to 6 /a in size. The 

 setae are brown, ventricose at the base, with acuminate apices, and are often 

 bent at an obtuse angle near the base, 31 x8-5 fi, 24 x 10 /*. 



309 (iii., 191). Fomes durissimus, Lloyd, Mycol. Notes, No. 62, February, 



1920, p. 943. The plants from the Bunya Mountains, appearing under Fomes 

 pseudosenex (No. 191) in our third paper, Llovd has now named as the above 

 (Lloyd, Nos. 493, 563). 



310. Fomes rimosiis, var. casuarinae, Clel. and Cheel, Botany of Pilliga 

 Scrub, Bull. 14, For. Comm. of N.S. Wales, 1920. New South Wales: On 



