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The following specimens are in the South Australian 

 Museum, in the portion set apart for exhibiting the foods of 

 the aboriginals : — 



(3) Sclerotium when fresh probably about 9x6x3 in. 

 After arrival at the Museum it began to develop a sporophore. 

 The upper-surface of this abortive fructification is pitted, from 

 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. Irregular 

 whitish pores have formed. Spores were not seen. Un- 

 earthed at the cyanide works of the Tasmanian Tailings 

 Syndicate, Middle Arm Channel, River Tamar, Tasmania. 

 Presented by Mr. Clement Phillipson, 1906 (Mus., No. 182). 



(4) An irregular sclerotium, 3x4 in. G. F. Thorp, 

 1899 (Mus., No. 183). 



(5) Sclerotium, 4x3x2 in. Found at Myponga "about 

 2 ft. underground near a gum tree in wet and sandy soil, 

 27/7/04. Advertiser Ofiice (vide Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Aust.)" 

 (Mus., No. 181). 



(6) A small distorted sclerotium, 4 in. long. Professor 

 Tate, Victoria (Mus., No. 184). 



The following is in the Herbarium of the University of 

 Adelaide : — 



(7) Sclerotium apparently about 6 in. across when 

 fresh. About 10 in. below the surface in mallee limestone 

 country, Denial Bay district, South Australia. Presented by 

 Mr. J. W. S. Mann, Saddleworth, South Australia, 15/10/12. 



The following are in the Melbourne National Museum : — 



(8) A large specimen from Toongabbie. 



(9) A specimen from the Pride of Stranger's Mine, 

 Yackindal. 



Dr. F. Stoward has found the sclerotium of this species 

 in Western Australia. By his kind permission, we are able 

 to reproduce his excellent photographs of this (pi. ii.). 



82. Polvporus minor -mylittae (IMylitta australis minor, 

 Berk., in Jour. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), vol. xiii., p. 175 [1873]). 



We adopt this name for what we regard as a distinct 

 species, which may be distinguished by the smaller sclerotium 

 and a different coloured sporophore. It has already been 

 recorded by one of us in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 

 xxxviii., p. 170 (1913), and also by C. G. Lloyd in Letter 

 No. 58, pp. 2 and 5 (1915), Note 269; and Mycol. Notes, 

 No. 39, p. 533 (1915). 



"Pileus (pi. iii.) 3-7 cm. across with a sulcate, minutely 

 tomentose surface, raw umber (brown). Flesh usually dry, 



