NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 493 



Ninth Division— OVIN US. 

 Section 38. With sclerotium. 



[We propose to deal more fully with the Australian species 

 in this section in a separate paper.] 



55. POLYPORUS (OVINUS) MYLITT^E Cooke. 



This Polyporus is the fruiting body of the well-known 

 'Native Bread' and has been rarely seen. The 'Native 

 Bread ' itself is commoner and consists of a large rounded 

 mass of fungal hyphse often several pounds in weight. From 

 this buried mass, when favourable opportunities arise, the 

 fruiting bodies develop and appear above ground. 



56. Polyporus (Ovinus) minor-mylitt^ (Berk.) 

 A smaller form of 'Native Bread,' referred to by Berkeley 

 as i Mylitta minor,'' has fruiting bodies with dark brown 

 caps, very different in appearance from the white and ' yolk 

 of egg' ones of the larger Mylitta. We propose to dis- 

 tinguish it as above by Berkeley's name. It is not uncom- 

 mon in New South Wales. 



57. Polyporus (Ovin us?) basilapiloides Mc Alpine&Tepper. 



The 'stone-making fungus,' described by McAlpine and 

 Tepper as 'Laccocephalum basilapiloides,'' and from the 

 description doubtfully referred by Lloyd to the Division 

 Amaurodermus, is from an examination of the type made 

 by us certainly not an Amaurodermus, having elongated, 

 smooth, white spores. It is probably referable to Ovinus, 

 and from its false sclerotium to this section. 



Section 39. Stipe usually mesopodal. Pores small. 

 58. Polyporus (Ovinus) ovinus Schaeffer. 



Recorded by Oooke (No. 583) for Victoria. 



Section 40. Stipe central. Pores large. 

 No Australian species recorded. 



Section 41. Stipe usually excentric or irregular. Pores 

 small. 



