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except for about 1 in., about f in. thick, slightly irregularly- 

 nodular, slightly bent. Attached to a large irregular 

 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 /x. Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, March, 1916. 



(2) Pileus 2 in. in diameter, convex, smooth, pale 

 brownish. Pores rather large, slightly decurrent, partitions 

 thin, orifice slightly dentate, pale brownish. Stem 1 in. long, 

 under \ in. thick, roughish, pallid brownish, succeeded by a 

 narrower irregular root \\ in. long, black on the outside 

 ( ? from the soil) and white within. In a dry swamp attached 

 to a large circumscribed mass 7x4x3 in. in size, composed 

 of black sandy soil held together by whitish mycelial threads, 

 but without a crust. Spores elongated, rather like those of 

 Boletus, white, 12 to 16*5 x 4'2 to 5 /x. Narrabeen, March, 

 1916. 



The following is a description of the specimen collected 

 at Casino by Mr. D. J. MeAuliffe in March, 1915: — Pileus 

 3 to 4 in. across, more or less velvety tomentose, pallid or 

 cream colour, tending to buff colour with age; margin 

 involute; pores rather large, angular, pallid white. Stem 

 nearly 5 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, the upper part pallid, 

 the lower part more or less covered with mycelial threads and 

 adhering soil. Spores not seen. The false sclerotium sent 

 with the sporophore measured about 3 to 4 in. across. 



88. Polyporus basilapiloides (McAlp. and Tepper) ; 

 Laccocephalum basilapiloides, McAlp. and Tepper: Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. vii., (n.s.) p. 166 (pi. x.), 1894 ; Polyporus 

 (section Amaurodermus) basilapidioides, Lloyd: Syn. Sect. 

 Ovinus of Polyporus, p. 76, 1911, and Syn. Stipitate Polyp., 

 p. 115 (1912). 



McAlpine and Tepper described this species and placed 

 it in a new genus Laccocephalum . The characteristics of this 

 proposed genus are that the plants are hard and woody from 

 the first, that the pileus is peculiarly pitted, and that the 

 spores are large, spherical, and coloured. On the strength 

 of the lastnamed Lloyd placed the species under the designa- 

 tion basilapidioides, m the section Amaurodermus. The spores, 

 however, are white, and not coloured. The plant probably 

 belongs to the section Ovinus, with other species forming true 

 or false sclerotia. Though hard and woody to touch extern- 

 ally, the section of the stem of one of the specimens we 

 examined was, though firm and resistant, velvety to the 

 touch. We would question further, therefore, the generic 



