528 J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 



Section 83. Context when dry, spongy and light. 

 A — Pores large, sinuate. 



129. Polyporus borealis Fries. 

 Oooke records this species (No. 652) for Victoria. 



B — Pores small, round. 



130. Polyporus pelles Jarvis. 

 Lloyd records this for Queensland. 



Second General Division.— Context white or pale, pores 

 coloured, spores hyaline. 



Section 84. Thin plants, less than a cm. thick. 



131. Polyporus adustus Willd. 

 Polyporus adustus Massee, Brit. Fung. Flora V, 2, 1, p. 



249 ; Oooke, Handb. of Aust. Fungi, No. 646. 



Syn. Polyporus strumosus ? Cooke, Handb. of Aust. 

 Fungi (No. 657)— Lloyd. 



From Lloyd's remarks we gather that P. strumosus, 

 recorded by Cooke for Victoria, is probably P. adustus. 

 Cooke records P. adustus, as such, for Victoria and Queens- 

 land. 



132. Polyporus campylus Berk. 



Recorded.by Cooke (No. 637) for Tasmania. 



Section 85. Thick, ungulate plants. 



133. Polyporus australiensis Wakefield. 

 Polyporus australiensis Wakefield, Kew Bull. (1914), 157. 



The original description of this species is in Latin which 

 may be briefly translated as follows: — 'Pileus flesh-coloured, 

 sessile, thickened at the base, 5 to 10 cm. or more in 

 diameter, 1 to 2 cm. thick in the medial part gradually 

 increasing up to 3 cm. at the base; cuticle smooth, bright 

 orange or more or less of an orange colour tinged red; con- 

 text in dried specimens tough and contracted, somewhat 



