297 



April, 1919; Lisarow, May, 1918 (Miss Clarke, Water- 

 colour 70; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp. 98); Krambach, near 

 Gloucester, January, 1918. 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus reddish-black (pi. 344, Tons 

 1 and 2). 



POLYSTICTUS. 



160. Polystictus elonr/atus, Berk.: Hook. J., 1842, p. 

 149; Sacc: Syll., vi., 5640; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, 

 No. 750 (Vict., Q'land). — Mount Wilson and Katoomba, 

 June; Leura, November; Somersby Falls, near Gosford, May; 

 Hawkesbury River, August and December (spores elongated, 

 5x2 ja) — all in New South Wales. Specimens have been 

 identified by Lloyd. 



161. Polystictus meleagris, Berk. Lloyd: Letter 65, Note 

 577. — Specimens collected in Mummulgum Brush, near 

 Casino, in December, 1916, have been identified by C. G. 

 Lloyd (No. 257). 



162. Polystictus badius, Berk. Lloyd: Letter 67, Note 

 666. — Specimens, sent to us by Dr. Leighton Jones from 

 Darwin, have been identified by C. G. Lloyd (No. 317). 



163. Polystictus ochraceo-stuppetcs , Lloyd : Letter 63, 

 1916, Note 464.— Petersham, Sydney, April, 1912 (T. Steel). 

 Identified by C. G. Lloyd in the above reference, who thus 

 describes it : — "Pileus erect, confluent, somewhat rosette form. 

 Surface ochraceous, soft tomentose, not zoned. Context dry, 

 soft, pinky, ochraceous. Pores minute, adustous. Cystidia 

 none. Spores not known to me. In general colour much like 

 Polystictus ochraceus, but context not of the same nature. The 

 soft, pinky context is similar to species of Trametes, as T. 

 lactinea, rather than to other Polystictus. We would put 

 it in the section with Polystictus occidentalis, though its context 

 relations are entirely different. The specimens, while well 

 developed, grew on an ash floor, and the form, like the rosette 

 form of Polystictus versicolor, when growing on top of a log, 

 is probably not the normal form." 



164. Polystictus occidentalis, Klotzsch. Cooke: Grev., 

 xiv., 85 (1886), and Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 794; Sacc: 

 Syll., vi., 5843 (Vict., Q'land, N.S. Wales, S. Austr.).— 

 Darwin, 1917 (Dr. Leighton Jones) ; identified by C. G. 

 Lloyd (No. 316). 



165. Polystictus (Trametes) Persoonii, Mont. Cooke: 

 Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 791 (Vict., Q'land, New Guinea). — 

 We have two collections, identified by Lloyd (Nos. 140 and 

 270), one from Mummulgum Brush, near Casino, N.S. Wales, 

 December, and one from Murwillumbah (?) Of the former 

 Lloyd says "pileus usually of a brighter colour. Pores some- 

 what irpicoid." 



