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AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Polyporus (Ovini) tumulosus, CJce. 
Pileo carnoso (3-4 une. diam.), firmo, convexo, pallido, squamulis 
innatis obscurioribus ornato, margine primitus incurvo, carne 
albo; stipite brevi, crasso, aequali (1-2 unc. long 1 unc. crass) solido, 
ocbraceo, mycelio profuso, albo, spongioso oriundo ; tubulis adnatis, 
vel subdecurrentibus, latis ; poris magnis, inaequalibus, angulatis. 
Sporis 12x4-5 p pallide olivaceis. 
On the ground. Near Brisbane. ( Bailey , 607.) 
“ On the hard stony ridges about Brisbane, when trenching the 
land, large masses of mycelium are often met with. Some of the 
masses would weigh over a hundredweight. From its consistence 
one might fancy that a quantity of dough had been buried. My 
idea has always been that it was the mycelium of some Boletus .” 
The specimens sent have some of the mycelium attached. Dr. 
Bancroft, who collected them, remarks that the natives make use 
of them for food, “ a fact worth recording as so few are eaten by 
them.” The description is drawn up from dried specimens, and 
no account was forwarded of the colour and appearance when fresh. 
Closely allied to Polyporus Hartmanni , C. 
Gxandinia glauca, CJce. 
Subceracea, late effusa, adglutinata, glauca, ambitu determinato, 
hymenio asquali ; granulis subconicis, sequalibus, minutis, confertis, 
concoloribus. Sporis 8x4/4. 
On naked wood. Brisbane. ( Bailey , 627.) 
Aleuxodiscus albidus, Mass. 
Primum pezizasforme, margine erecto, tomentoso, inflexo, dein 
explanato-expanso, saspeque confluenti ; hymenio albo, sub- 
pulverulento, in sicco hinc inde rimoso ; sporis ellipsoideis 
10-12x9 pi. 
On branches. Brisbane. (Bailey , n. 620.) 
Plants pure white, at first scattered, 2-3 lines in diameter, often 
becoming confluent and forming irregular patches ; in. across. 
Uxomyces diploglottidis, CJce. Sp Mass. 
Epiphylla. Soris sparsis, convexis, minutis, diu tectis, demum 
fissuratis, pallide fuscis, maculis orbicularibus virentibus insidentibus. 
Teleutosporis ellipticis, apice obtuse acuminato, basi in stipitem 
brevi attenuato. Episporio hyalino, crasso, plasmate granuloso, 
pallido, 50-60 x 20-30 p. 
On fading leaves of JDiploglottis. Brisbane. ( Bailey , 626.) 
Fhoma plagia, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Maculis determinatis, glaucescentibus, ellipticis vel confluentibus, 
margine lineato circumscripto ; peritheciis minutissimis, atris, 
emergentibus ; sporulis ellipticis, binucleatis, hyalinis, 8-9 x 5 p. 
On palm leaves. Daintree River. ( Bailey , 464.) 
