NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 50S 



Section 55. Large. Context white, hard. 

 78. Fomes connatus Fries. 

 Recorded by Cooke (No. 71) for Queensland. 



79. Fomes annosus Fries. 

 Syn. Polyporus hypopolius Kalcb., probably, (Cooke, No* 

 658); Fomes contrarius B. and O. (Cooke, No. 694). 



Recorded by Cooke, under the above two synonyms, for 

 Queensland. 



Section 56. Small. Context white or isabelline. 

 80. Fomes Clelandii Lloyd, (Mycol. Notes, No. 40, Feb. 

 1916, p. 550). 



"Pileus sessile, small, 1 to 2 cm. in diameter. Surface 

 black, regular, dull. Context isabelline. Pores minute 

 with white mouths. Cystidia none. Spores elliptical, 6 

 to 7 x 7 to 8^/s subhyaline, opaque, smooth. When this 

 was received it was referred with doubt (cfr. Note 297, 

 Letter 59) to Fomes scutellatus, an American species, with 

 which it exactly accords to the eye. We have since found 

 that the spores of Fomes scutellatus are entirely different, 

 and hence must re-name the Australian plant." — Lloyd. 

 Tuggerah (J.B.C., October, 1914). 



81. Fomes Ohiensts Berk. 

 "Pileus small, dimidiate, usually less than 2 cm. in 

 diameter, \ cm. thick, white, hard. Surface smooth, even, 

 with no distinct crust. Context and pores white. Pores 

 small, round, regular. Spores obovate, truncate at base, 

 hyaline, smooth, 12 to 14 x 8/^."— Lloyd. 



This species is very closely allied to the common Aus- 

 tralian Polyporus ochroleucus found so frequently on fence- 

 rails. In America it is found in the same situations. Lloyd 

 has identified for us as this species, a specimen found at 

 Lisarow in August, 1916 (spores truncate, 10*4 to 12 x 7 

 to 7*5/*). Except that the pores are smaller than our 



