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Section 71. Context brown. Setae none. Spores coloured. 

 A — Context Light Brown. 

 107. Fomes rimosus Berk. 

 'Pileus unguliform, with a black, rimose surface, usually 

 very rough, no distinct crust. Context bright yellow- 

 brown (raw sienna). Pores minute, hard, annual layers 3 

 to 4 mm. thick. Pore mouths concolorous, when young 

 velutinate to touch. Hyphee deep bright yellow. Setse 

 none. Spores globose, deeply coloured, 5 mic' — Lloyd. 



Recorded by Cooke (No. 688) on gum tree trunks for New 

 South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania. Lloyd 

 records a specimen from Dr. E. C. Stirling, Adelaide, 

 departing from the type in being narrow, ungulate and 

 with pores slightly larger. 



We have the following specimens: — Jerilderie (Dr. Fer- 

 guson, October, 1913), spores yellow-brown, spherical or 

 somewhat triangular or oval, 5*2 to 6/^ — identified by C. G. 

 Lloyd — another sporophore collected at the same time was 

 4 ins. in width ; on Casuarina sp., Milson Island, Hawkes- 

 bury River, 3 \ ins. wide, 2 J ins. deep, 1^ ins. high (October 

 1915, spores oval to triangular, yellow-brown, 7 to 8 x 3'5/x); 

 Milson Island (J.B.C., August), spores yellow-brown, 5*2 

 to 6 x 3*4/*; on Casuarina sp., Baan Baa near Boggabri, 

 January, 1917; on Casuarina Luehmanni, Pilliga Scrub, 

 Narrabri, November, 1916; on Angophora lanceolata, 

 Hawkesbury River, November 1916, a huge sporophore, 

 1\ ins. high x 6 ins. x 5 ins. (spores brown, subspherical 

 to triangular, 6*5 to 7*5 x 5 to 5*5/^); on Eucalyptus crebra 

 or E. melanopliloia, Narrabri, November, 1916 (approaching 

 the var. badius in the pores being larger, spores yellow- 

 brown, 6*8 to 7*5 x 5/x, identified by Lloyd). 



107a. Fomes rimosus var. Niaouli (F. Niaouli 

 Patouillard). 

 ' Pileus unguliform, or thick, applanate, with dark brown 

 or black, matted, tomentose surface. Context colour dark 



