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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI, No. IV. 



POLYPORUS, FOMES and HEXAGONA. 



By J. Burton Cleland, m.d., and Edwin Cheel, Botanical 

 Assistant, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, December 5, 1917.] 



Through the kind assistance of O. G. Lloyd of Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, most of the Australian polypores in our possession 

 have been accurately identified. In the present paper we 

 record our various collections. In doing so, we make use 

 of the excellent keys employed by Lloyd in the following 

 works: — 'Synopsis of the Genus Hexagona' (Ohio, 1910), 

 * Synopsis of the Stipitate Polyporoids' (Ohio, 1912), 'Synop- 

 sis of the Section Apus of the Genus Polyporus ' (Ohio, 1915) 

 and 'Synopsis of the Genus Fomes' (Ohio, 1915). In addition 

 to recording the plants we have handled, we have included 

 as well all the Australian species embraced in these works. 

 Australian mycologists should thus have available a work- 

 able scheme for the identification of most of our firmer 

 polypores. Those who have attempted to work out the 

 species from Cooke's ' Handbook of Australian Fungi,' will 

 appreciate the value of Lloyd's work. 



We deal first with the Stipitate Polypores, then with 

 Fomes, Polyporus (Apus) and Hexagona. 



I. STIPITATE SPECIES OP THE GENERA POMES, 

 POLYPORUS AND POLYSTICTUS. 



Sub-woody. — With woody fibrils but not perennial and 

 not having the pores in strata (except as to the first). 

 Pores in areas of growth indistinctly stratified. Fomes. 

 Pores not stratified. 



