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103a. Fomes conchatus var. SALICINUS (F. SALICINUS Bull). 



'Growing on willow, Fomes conchatus is usually sub- 

 resupinate, or with a thick, imperfect pileate development. 

 The context colour is also darker.' — Lloyd. 



Recorded in Cooke (No. 691) for Queensland. 



104. Fomes lineato-scaber Berk. 



Fomes lineato-scaber Berk, and Broome, Linn. Trans., 

 ii, 59, t. 11, f. 1; Cooke, Handb. of Aust. Fungi, No. 697. 



4 Pileus dimidiate, descending behind, rigid, brown (10 cm. 

 broad, 6 cm. long); margin pallid, frequently zoned, lineate 

 radiate, rough; hymenium rhubarb colour; pores punctiform, 

 dissepiments obtuse (300/* diam.). On trunks, Queensland.' 

 — Cooke. 



In identifying a specimen sent to him, Lloyd says: — 'To 

 the eye, every feature, surface, context colour, pores, this 

 is so much like Trametes strigata that I thought it must 

 be a Fomes form of that species. The pores are stratified 

 and it has setae on the hymenium and belongs to Section 70 

 of the Fomes pamphlet. Trametes strigata has no setae as 

 far as I can find. When I observed the type of Fomes 

 lineato-scaber, which is in the British Museum, I thought 

 it a Fomes form of Trametes strigata, but I find on exam- 

 ination that it agrees with this specimen that you send in 

 having setae on the hymenium. It is a true Fomes with 

 stratified pores, but was omitted from my Fomes Synopsis 

 as I was under the impression that it was only a Fomes 

 form of Trametes strigata,''' This specimen was collected 

 by one of us (J.B.O.) on Flinders Island, Bass Straits, in 

 November 1912. We have specimens from Milson Island, 

 Hawkesbury River, very like this but also indistinguishable 

 from examples of Polyporus gilvus, with which we place 

 them. 



G»— December 5. 1917. 



