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The following specimens are in the South Australian 
Museum, in.the ponant set apart for exhibiting the foods of 
the aborigin als:— 
(3) Sclerotium when fresh probably about 9x6x3 in. 
After arrival at the Museum it began to develop a po 
The upper-surface of this abortive fructification is pitted, fro 
the specimen having been lying on perforated zinc. The 
surface is now dull white with slight brownish stains and 
finely villous. The pileus is very distorted. ea, foe 
whitish pores have formed. Spores were not seen 
earthed at the cyanide works of the Tasmanian Tailings 
Syndicate, Middle Arm Channel, River Tamar, Tasmania 
psv y Mr. Clement Phillipson, 1906 (Mus., No. 182). 
An irregular sclerotium, 3x4 in. G. F. Thorp, 
1899 (Mus, o. 183). 
(5) Scler otium, 4x3x2 in. a at Myponga ' dE 
2 ft. underground near a gum tree in wet and cup. sol 
27/7/04. Advertiser Office (vide Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Aust)" 
(Mus., No. 181 
(6) A sai distorted sclerotium, 4 im. long. Professor 
Tate, Victoria (Mus., No. 184). 
The ee is in the Herbarium of the University of 
Adelaide: 
7 im apparently about 6 in. across when 
POI doom ii^ Delow the vesci in mallee Damen 
country, Denial. Bay district, South Australia. Presented il 
Mr. J. W. S. Mann, Saddleworth, South Australia, 15/10/ 
The following are in the Melbourne oan Museum :— 
(8) A large specimen from Toonga 
(9) A specimen from the Pride of  Stranger's Mine, 
Yackindal. 
Dr. F. Stoward has found the sclerotium of this a 
in Western Australia. By his kind permission, we are 4 
to reproduce his excellent photographs of this (pl. ii.). 
82. Polyporus minor-mylittae (* M t australis ed 
Berk., in Jour. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), vol. xiii., p. 175 [1873] 
e adopt this name for what we regard as a distinct 
species, which may be scs septa by the malian sclerotium 
and a different ssa sporophore. It has already : 
recorded by one of us n. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 
n Proc. Lin i s 
xxxviii, p. 170 70 (1913), and also by C. G. Lloyd in ie 
No. 58, pp. 2 -— 5 (1915), Note 269; and Mycol. Notes, 
No. 39, P- M. ex 8 15). j 
Pileus (pl. Bh) 3-7 em. across with a sulcate, sinite X 
“surface, raw ' umber (brown). Flesh usually dry» 
