518 J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 



short pores and very thick context — the young plants are 

 covered with a beautiful greyish-brown bloom — the spores 

 are thick-walled, brown, smooth, 8*5 to 11 x 5'5 to 7/;; 

 Lilyvale and Mount Keira (A. A. Hamilton, June, 1910); 

 Upper Fern-tree Gully, Victoria (E.G., February, 1908); 

 Russell Falls, Tasmania (E.G., March, 1910); Adelaide, S. A. 

 (J.B.C., 1898); Mount Ohincogan (T. McDonough, May, 

 1910). 



114a. FOMES APPLANATUS var. LEUCOPH.EUS (F. LEUCOPH^US 



Montague.) 

 A form of F- applanatus with a hard pale or white crust 

 (Lloyd). Lloyd has identified for us as this form, a speci- 

 men obtained ten feet up the trunk of a tree at Mount 

 Irvine in June, 1915. 



114b. Fomes applanatus var.AUSTRALis(F. australis Fries). 

 F. applanatus Oheel, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, (1900) 

 672. 



A tropical form with thin context and long pores (Lloyd). 



A specimen of this variety identified as F. australis by 

 Lloyd, is in the National Herbarium, Sydney; the pileus is 

 over 14 x 9 ins., and grew in the fork of the branches* 

 about four and a half feet from the ground, of an exotic 

 Acacia (A. horrida), which eventually died through its 

 attack. We have also the following specimens : — Mount 

 Wilson (J.B.O., June, 1915), and on Ligustrum lucidum> 

 Paddington (E. Bennett, February, 1912). 



114c. Fomes applanatus var. oroflavus (F. oroflavus 



Wilson). 

 A tropical form with yellow pore mouths (Lloyd). 



One of us (E.G.) collected a specimen of this plant at 

 Upper Fern-tree Gully, Victoria, in February, 1908, and 

 there are also specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 from Nauru Island (Ocean Island Group) collected by T. W. 

 Steel in June, 1908. 



