NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 539' 



1916 — spores dark brown, oval, 5 to 6 x 3*5/*; one brown 

 acuminate seta seen. 



153. Polyporus corruscans Fr. (P. rheades Pers.). 



'Pileus sessile, dimidiate, subglobose or ungulate, often 

 imbricate. Surface tomentose, velutinate, with short, fine 

 brown hairs. There is at first developed a mycelial core r 

 hard, amorphous, grumous, dark brown. Flesh fibrillose, 

 ferruginous brown (Sudan brown). At first zonate, soft, 

 watery and spongy, at length dry, hard. Pores small, 

 round, about 1 cm. long, with tissue concolorous with the 

 context, when fresh the mouths silvery and glancing. 

 Hyphse deeply coloured. Setae scanty and rare, often not 

 found. Spores very abundant, globose or compressed 

 globose, 5 — 7 X 6— 7/x, deeply coloured, smooth, 1 — Lloyd. 



Lloyd has identified specimens from W. W. Froggatt 

 (Letter No. 63, Note 472, 1916), presumably from New 

 South Wales. 



B — Surface smooth or at length smooth. 

 154. Polyporus Patouillardii Rick. 

 Polyporus Patouillardii Lloyd, Letter No. 56 (Note 253), 

 1915; Letter No. 58 (Note 268) 1915; Synopsis, Sect. Apus 

 of the Genus Polyporus (1915) 365. 



'Pileus sessile, applanate, 2-3 cm. thick. Surface 

 smooth, brown, dull. Flesh brittle, hard, faintly zonate r 

 with a satiny lustre, dark brown (antique brown). Pores 

 small, round, 1 — 1J cm. deep, pale yellowish-brown, more 

 yellow than the context. Imbedded in the pore tissue 

 are thick, deeply coloured, rigid hyphae. Setse scattered, 

 thick, straight, projecting 20 mic. Spores abundant, 

 elliptical, 4—6 mic, pale colured. 



Rev, Mr. Rick has named and distributed this from Brazil 

 (No, 25 as lineatoscaber) and we have specimens to cor- 

 respond. It has peculiar coloured flesh, with a lustre on 



