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Section 6. Polyporus. Spores distinctly rough. Stem 

 slender, usually mesopodal. 



a. Stipe smooth, non-laccate surface. No Australian 



species recorded. 



b. Stipe with a smooth, laccate crust. 



6. Polyporus (Amaurodermus) leptopus, Persoon(?). 



Cooke records Fomes nigripes (No. 668) for New South 

 Wales. Lloyd has been unable to find the type of Amauro- 

 dermus nigripes described by Fries from Brazil, and states 

 that the description of it reads much like A. leptopus, under 

 which heading w r e place it, though possibly the Australian 

 record belongs to neither. 



Laccocephalum basilapiloides McAlpine and Tepper. 



Lloyd suggests that the "stone-making fungus " described 

 by McAlpine and Tepper as Laccocephalum basilapiloides 

 is referable to this division. On examination of the type, 

 we find that it is closely allied to Polyporus tumulosus of 

 the Division Ovinus (which see). 



Section 7. Polystictus. Plants with thin pilei and pore 

 layers. No Australian species recorded. 



Fourth Division-LIGrNOSUS 

 Section 8. Plants which form a sclerotium. Context 



pale or isabelline. Spores probably white. 

 No Australian species recorded. 

 Section 9. Pilei unilateral and superimposed. Context 



pale. 



7. Polyporus (Lignosus) superpositus Berk. 

 Under Fomes superpositus (No. 674) Cooke records this 

 species for New South Wales. We have not met with it 

 and it is evidently rare. 



Section 10. Stipe mesopodal or pleuropodal. Context 

 white or pale. Spores white. 

 No Australian species recorded. 



