NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 517 



for us as this species, a Fomes growing about twelve feet 

 up the trunk of a fine specimen of Eucalyptus saligna at 

 Lisarow in August, 1916. Spores distinctly brown-tinted, 

 6 to 7fi; dark brown, pointed setae, 17 x 7/*. This is evi- 

 dently a timber-destroying species of economic importance. 



B — Context Dark Brown. 



113. Fomes linteus Berk. 



Recorded by Cooke (No. 700) for Queensland. As Lloyd 



says that he believes this species is only known from the 



type at Kew from Nicaragua, this record seems very 



doubtful. 



Seventh General Division -GANODERMUS. 

 Section 73. Fomes — Ganodermus. 

 A — Pores with Thin Walls. Spores Smooth or Punctate. 

 114. Fomes applanatus Persoon. 

 Syn. Ganoderma applanatum Pat. in Bull. Soc. Myc. 



Fr. 1889, p. 67; Wakefield, Kew Bull. (1915), 364. 



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4 Pileus usually applanate, with a brown, rather soft crust 

 when fresh. Context colour dark brown (bay brown). Pores 

 minute, with brown tissue and white mouths. Spores 

 coloured, obovate, 6 x 10 mic, truncate at the base, with 

 smooth, punctate surface.' — Lloyd. 



We have the following specimens: — Helensburgh, W. 

 Craigie, August, 1909, determined byLloyd,andJ.B.C.,(Oct. 



1914, spores thick-walled, oval, finely warted, brown, 9*2 

 to 10 x 6 to 7/*); Lisarow (J.B.O., April, 1915, and June, 

 1916); Thirroul (J.B.O., April); National Park, July, 1916; 

 Wingham, November, 1916; Mount Wilson, May, 1915; 

 Flinders Island, Bass Straits (J.B.C., November, 1912). We 

 have also a series of small ungulate poorly developed sporo- 

 phores taken in October and November 1914, December 



1915, and June 1916, from the base of a specimen of Ango- 

 phora lanceolata at Mosman, Sydney, which have very 



