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except for about 1 in., about 2 in. thick, slightly irregularly 
nodular, slightly bent. Attached to a 1 irregula 
mycelial mass, several inches long, composed of sandy particles 
and pieces of sandstone loosely agglomerated by mycelium, 
apparently confined by a thin reddish-brown crust. Spores 
white, elongated, shaped like typical Boletus spores, 10'4 x 3'4 
to 4 p. Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, March, 1916. 
(2) Pileus 2 in. in diameter, convex, smooth, pale 
narrower irregular root 1} in. long, black on the outside 
(? from the soil) and white within. In a dry swamp attached 
to a large circumscribed mass 7 x4x3 in. in size, composed 
of black sandy soil held together by whitish mycelial threads, 
ut without a crust pores elongated, rather like those of 
Boletus, white, 12 to 165x42 to 5 p. Narrabeen, March, 
(section Amaurodermus) basilapidioides, Lloyd: Syn. 
Ovinus of Polyporus, S de. 1911, and Syn. Stipitate Polyp-> 
p. 115 (1912). 
. . McAlpine and Tepper described this species and placed 
itin a new genus Laccocephalum. The characteristics of this 
genus are that the plants are hard and woody from 
that the pileus is peculiarly pitted, and that the 
. and Teppe Too, 
Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. vii., (w.s.) p. 166 ik x.), 1894; gf dS 
à d 
orm 
ilu fe ia. Though hard and woody to touch extern- 
rem a the stem of one of the i wm 
.-Ammed was, though firm and resistant, velvety : 
