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ance of a wart. Should never have been named at all, and 

 most certainly should never have been put in the section 

 of Lentus of stipitate fungi where Cooke placed it." 



Eleventh Division— ME LAN OPUS. 



Section 48. Stipe pleuropodal or central, rarely lateral. 

 Pores minute. 



72. Polyporus (Melanopus) varius Pers. 



Lloyd has identified for us specimens from Mummulgum 

 Brush near Casino (December, 1918). These plants are 

 larger (2 ins. across) and stouter than our common P. 

 Pancheri. The cap is of a brownish tan and slightly stri- 

 ate, the pores are pallid whitish. 



72a. Polyporus (Melanopus) varius var. Blanchetianus 



Mont. 

 Lloyd considers this a small form of P. varius, and has 

 identified as P. Blanchetianus specimens from Miss M. 

 Flockton from Port Jackson. 



72b. Polyporus (Melanopus) varius var. Pancheri 

 Patouillard. 



Lloyd says that this and seven other 'species' might 

 easily be considered as forms of M. varius (Cooke, No. 608). 

 M. picipes (Cooke, No. 605) is a black form of M. varius 

 with a velvety stem. M. dictyopus (Cooke, No. 613) is the 

 typical smaller form of M. varius-picipes, usually known 

 as M. infernalis of Berkeley (Cooke, No. 607), to which 

 latter the Australian form, M. Pancheri, is referred at Kew. 

 Of Polyporus Strangeri Kalch., Lloyd says that the type is 

 unknown, but from the description it seems to be M. dic- 

 tyopus (i.e. M. Pancheri). M. elegans (Cooke, No. 609) is 

 another variety with such a constant smaller size that it 

 is generally held to be a good species (Lloyd). From these 

 remarks of Lloyd, it seems best, at present at any rate, to 

 consider all these Australian records as belonging to the 



