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AUSTRALIAN FUNGI: NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS. 
No. 2.-THE SCLEROTIA-FORMING POLYPORES 
F AUSTRALIA. 
By J. BURTON CLELAND, M.D., and Epwin C#EEL, Botanical 
Assistant, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 
. [Read April 10, 1919.]. 
Puates I. to V. 
t ow any alveolar arrangement. So far we have not obtained 
Tulting bodies of this. 
he forms with false sclerotia have a deeply-situated 
mycelium which penetrates and surrounds sand and small 
Stones, com mes 
pacting them ther into a ; 
C ormous. One F these is Tüsciec yall basilapiloides, the 
Stone-making fungus," and the other is the fruiting body 
We have had an opportunity of examining the type of 
the former in the reiecit of the University of Adelaide, 
and find it is closely allied to, but apparently not identical 
» a specimen we recently collected that seems to be the 
