NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 541 



The specimen was obtained at Stanwell Park (H. Stephens, 

 October, 1913). 



Section 96. Context brown. Light, spongy, fibrillose. 

 Setae none. 



155. Polyporus fruticum Berk. 

 Recorded by Cooke (No. 649) for Queensland. 



Fifth General Division— Polyporus — Ganodermus.- Context 

 brown; spores coloured, truncate. 



Section 97. Context soft, spongy. 

 No Australian species recorded. 

 Section 98. Context firm, not spongy. 

 A — Spores rough. 

 No Australian species recorded. 



B — Spores smooth or slightly rough. 

 No Australian species recorded. 



Section 99. Polyporus (Amaurodermus). 

 No Australian species recorded. 



IV. HEXAGONA. 



Section I. — Setosa. Surface clothed with dense branched hairs. 

 Section II. — Velutina. Surface with fine soft pubescence. 

 Section III — Ungulaformis (hoof -shaped). Thick, hard, and long 



pores. 

 Section IV — Applanata. Pileus generally flattened and texture 



usually softer. 

 Section V — Tenuis. Pileus very thin, with rather small shallow 



pores. 

 Section VI — Pallida. Context white or pale ochraceous. 

 Section VII — Pseudofavola. Pileus more or less fleshy, tough. 

 Section I— Setosa. k 



156. Hexagona apiaria (Pers.), Lloyd. 

 Syn. H. Wighbii Klotsch in Cooke's Handb. Aust. Fungi, 

 No. 882; Baker, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxn, p. 238, 

 (1897). 



