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THE LARGER FFNGI 
***Pileus sub-gelatinous leathery, stem horny. 
HELIOMYCES Lev. 
(Gr., ltelws, the suu ; myl'cx, a fungus.) 
“Flesh tremelloid, subcoreaceous, reviving in moist weather. I ‘ileus rugose, 
Sulcatc or retieulate-rirlged. Stem central, con lluent with the pilous, tough. No 
veil. Gills with an acute edge.’’ — Kauffman. 
No Australian species as yet recorded. 
5. Receptacle coriaceous, fleshy coriaceous or woody. Spores white. 
*Gil!s with crisped folds. 
TROGIA Fr. (PLICATURA Peck.) 
(T'rog, a Swiss Mycologist.) (L., plicatms, folded; Gr.. oura, a tail.) 
“ Fileus spongy coriaceous, soft, flaccid, dimidiate, sessile or suhstipitate. 
Hymeniuni covering obtuse veins, gill-like in front, crisped and branched behind, 
fertile on the edge. Spores white, oblong or cylindrical, smooth. Cystidin none. 
Growing on wood.” — Rea. 
No South Australian species known. 
'"Gills with the edges longitudinally split. 
SCHIZOPHYLLUM Fr. 
(Gr., seliiso, I split ; phyUon., a leaf.) 
“Fileus coriaceous, resupinate. Stem lateral or none. Gills radiating from a 
central point, becoming longitudinally split and revolute at the edges. Spores 
white, cylindrical, smooth, continuous. Cystidia none. Growing on wood.” Rea. 
Schizophyllum commune Fr. (L., u n A, common). — Fileii single or 
often caespitose or sometimes densely umbricnte, up to din. (7.5 cm.) laterally 
and 1 ‘in. (3.7 cm.) long but often much smaller,' more or less fan-shaped or 
I Photo, by S. Tee. 
Figure 32.— .Schizo,, In, Ihun Fr. (No. 262). Multifid form from 
Darwin, North Australia. 
