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Context vinaceous or purple... 

 Context olive... 

 Context brown. Setae none... 

 Context brown. Setse present 



IV. Context and spores coloured. Spores not truncate 

 Context pale (white ?) or isabelline. Setse none 

 Context yellow. Setse none... 

 Context brown. Setae none... 

 Context brown. Setae present 

 Context brown, light, spongy, fibrillose. Setae none ,, 



V. Polyporus— Ganodermus. Context brown. Spores 

 coloured, truncate. 



Context soft, spongy... ... ... ... ,, 98 



Context firm, not spongy ... ... ... „ 99 



Polyporus — Amaurodermus ... ... ... „ 100 



First General Division— Context and pores white or pale 

 when growing, spores hyaline. 

 Section 76. Pileus with thin but distinct crust. 

 A — Flesh firm and fragile. 



115. Polyporus betulinus Bull. 

 Recorded by Cooke (No. 654) for Queensland on beech. 



116. Polyporus albellus Peck. 



Syn. Polyporus chioneus Cooke, Handb. of Aust. Fungi, 

 No. 635. 



'Pileus dimidiate, sessile, usually 1\ to 2 ins. in diameter, 

 often imbricate, but rarely, if ever, subresupinate. Surface 

 smooth, with a very thin crust. Colour of surface usually 

 grayish or yellowish, sometimes white. Flesh drying white, 

 fragile. Pores small, round, drying slightly alutaceous. 

 Spores allantoid, 1 x 4 to 5 mic, cylindrical, curved.'-Lloyd. 



Recorded by Cooke under the above synonym for Victoria, 

 New South Wales, and Queensland. 



