522 



J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 



soft, brittle. Pores very minute, discoloured slightly, with 

 a waxy appearance. Spores not found (allantoid ?). '-Lloyd. 



Recorded in Oooke for Tasmania. We have not met with 

 the species. 



119. Polyporus pelliculosus Berk. 

 Oooke, Handb. of Aust. Fungi, No. 650. 



Syn. Polyporus spiculifer, Oooke, (No. 651). A "thin 

 form with the tomentum collected into very distinct 

 nodules. ' ' — (Lloyd ). 



Recorded for Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. 



B — Flesh soft, spongy. 



120. Polyporus eucalyptorum Fries. 



Polyporus eucalyptorum Fries in Lehmann's Plantse 



Preiss., n, p. 135 (1816-47); Fries, Epicr., 462 ; Oooke, 



Handb. of Aust. Fungi, No. 656; Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.W., xxiv (1899), 447; Oheel, ditto, xxxn, (1907), 203. 



Syn. Polyporus hololeucus Kalchbrenner, Hedw. xv, 114 

 (Lloyd); Polyporus leucocreas Oooke (Loyd). Xylostroma 

 gigantea Oheel, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxv (1910), 308 

 and 309, and Ann. Rep. Bot. Gdns., 1910 (1911), 11. 



'Pileus ungulate (or thick, applanate), 3 to 5 inches in 

 diameter. Orust very soft, pale, at length dark, easily 

 separating. Context very soft, white, spongy, crumbly, 

 fragile. Pores medium, round, white, fragile, 6 to 12 mm. 

 long. Spores abundant, 8 to 10 mic, many smaller, sub- 

 globose, with granular or guttulate contents.' — Lloyd. 



Cooke records the species from Victoria and Western 

 Australia. Oheel and Baker loc. eit., have both recorded 

 it, the former for the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and Hill 

 Top, the latter for Gerogery on Stringybark (Eucalyptus 

 capitellata). McAlpine (System. Arrang. of Aust. Fungi, 

 1895) adds South Australia to Oooke's localities. 



