NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 525" 



Heights (August, 1912), Lloyd states seem to be exactly 

 the same as the American plants. The spores of these 

 were 4*3 to 5 x 3/^. We have also specimens from Tug- 

 gerah (October, 1914). Another collection obtained on an 

 old Oasuarina stump at Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 

 in September, 1914, Lloyd also thinks is this species though 

 it is doubtful, as the pores do not turn 'smoky' — the spores 

 are 5'5 to 7 x 2*5 to 3'5/*. 



124. Polyporus epileucus Fries. 

 This has been recorded by Cooke (No. 627) for Queens- 

 land, but from Lloyd's description of the species, we doubt 

 the identification. 



B — Surface strigose with brown hairs. 

 No Australian plants recorded. 



O — Spores large, hyaline, truncate, corresponding to Gano- 

 dermus spores. 



125, Polyporus ochroleucus Berk. 

 Polyporus ochroleucus Berk., Hook. Journ. 1845, 53. 



Syn. Trametes ochroleucus Oooke, Handb. of Aust. Fungi, 

 No. 847; Wakefield, Kew Bull. 1915, 366 ; Fomes com- 

 pressus Berk., Hook. Journ. 1845, and Oooke, Handb. of 

 Aust. Fungi, No. 709 (Lloyd). 



'Pileus usually well formed, regular, ungulate (3 to 4 x 

 \\ to 2 cm.). Surface with indistinct crust, smooth, or 

 more or less appressed, strigose, fibrillose, faint indications 

 of zones. Colour usually pale with a slight ochraceous 

 tint, rarely decidedly yellowish. Context thin, hard ; at 

 first pale, in old specimens becoming dark. Pores small, 

 \ mm., regular, long, minute, rigid. Spores pecular, oblong, 

 truncate at base, 8 x 16 mic, hyaline.' — Lloyd. 



This species is very common, especially on fences and 

 fallen timber in Australia, and is doubtless, in many 

 instances, an active agent in their early rotting. We have 



