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latter species. We find from an examination that L. basila- 

 piloides does not belong to the section Amaurodermus, as 

 Lloyd, from its description, was led to believe, but probably 

 to the section Ovinus. 



Acknowledgment s . 



We wish to express our indebtedness to the following for 

 their courtesy in affording us facilities for examination of 

 the specimens contained in the collections under their care : — 



To Mr. J. H. Maiden, I.S.O., F.R.S., of the National 

 Herbarium, Sydney. 



To Mr. R. T. Baker, of the Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



To Professor Sir W. B. Spencer, C.M.G., F.R.S., of the 

 National Museum, Melbourne. 



To Messrs. W. Laidlaw, Biologist, and C. C. Brittlebank, 

 Plant Pathologist, of the Department of Agriculture, Science 

 Branch, Melbourne. 



To the Board of Governors of the Public Library, 

 Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia; and to Mr. 

 Edgar R. Waite, Curator of the South Australian Museum. 



To Professor T. G. B. Osborn, of the University of 

 Adelaide. 



To Mr. A. G. Hamilton, for the photographs in pi. v., 

 figs. 1 and 2. 



PoLYPORES WITH TRUE ScLEROTIA. 



81. Poly poms mylittae, Cooke and Massee : Grevillea, 

 vol. xxi., p. 37 (1892). 



The subterranean sclerotium, or "tuber," called "Black- 

 fellow's Bread," "Native Bread," or occasionally "Native 

 Truffle," was originally described under the name Mylitta 

 australis by Berkeley in 1839. It is also recorded in M. 

 C. Cooke's Handb. of Austr. Fungi, No. 1351, under the 

 latter name. In 1885 H. T. Tisdall discovered some speci- 

 mens with fructification, and forwarded them to M. C. Cooke, 

 who identified them as a Polyporus and named them P. 

 mylittae (Gardener's Chronicle, Oct. 29, p. 526, 1892). In 

 1902 R. T. Baker (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxvii., p. 

 542, pis. xxii. and xxiii. [1902]) exhibited some specimens with 

 sporophores, and gave a detailed description of the same, and 

 also had a coloured drawing made of the fresh specimen, which 

 shows that the pileus is quite velvety and whitish, with 

 more or less egg-yellow on the upper-surface. By his kind 

 permission we are able to reproduce part of his sketch of the 



