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reniform and lobed, the edges Of the lobes sometimes eristately indented, 
irregularly plane, convex or concave, radiately rugose, covered with dingy greyish 
to whitish downy hairs becoming strigose, often pendulous, usually contracted 
to a stem-like base, tough, near Wood Brown (XL.) when moist, drying pallid 
greyish-white. Gills splitting and when -moist revolute at the edges, narrow, 
close, radiating, near Yinaoeous Buff (xl.) sometimes with a livid cinnamon 
tint or Aveilaneous (xl.). Flesh pallid, tough. Spores in the mass white with 
a very faint salmon tint, microscopically narrow, slightly curved, 7.5 x 2.7 ytt. 
On fallen trunks, stumps, dead branches, and sometimes on old timber. South 
Australia — On stumps of Finm and willow and on wood of Araucaria Bidwilli 
Hook., Beaumont; Waterfall Gully. All the Australian States. Probably nearly 
world-wide. Autumn and winter. (Figure .‘!2.) 
A not uncommon species on dead wood and stumps, readily recognised by its 
toughness, its split revolute gills and its greyish-white downy-strigose upper 
surface. It is found sometimes in dense overlapping masses. It undoubtedly 
aids in the disintegration of dead wood and stumps. 
***Gills black. 
ANTHRACOPHYLLUM. 
(Gr., anthrax, coal; pliyllon, a leaf.) 
Pileus semi-circular, almost sessile, leathery, tough, thin, wrinkled. Gills 
leathery-coriaceous, unequal, with sharp undivided edges, black. Spores white. 
No Australian species recorded. 
**** Pileus tleshv coriaceous, gills somewhat soft. 
PANUS Fr. 
(Gr., pan, all; ous, an ear.) 
“ Pileus fleshy-coriaceous, excentric, dimidiate or regupinate, sessile or stipitatc. 
Stem when present lateral, confluent with the pileus. Gills soft, then coriaceous, 
decurrent or arising from a central point. Spores white, cylindrical or elliptical, 
smooth, continuous. Oystidia present or absent. Growing on wood, often 
caespitose. ’ ’ — Rea. 
These fungi are non-putrescent, tough, and grow on wood. The pileus is 
excentric, lateral or at first resupinate. The flesh varies in texture from tough 
to somewhat fleshy, so that some species approach Pleurotus. Some authorities 
consequently may place a species in Panus which others consider should come 
under Pleurotus. The gills have an entire edge which distinguishes them from 
those of Lentinus, in -which the edges are thin and lacerated or serrated. 
Stem definitely lateral. 
2(13. Panus stipticus (Bull.) Fr. “Pileus l to 2-)ir>. (1.2 to 6.7 cm.), thin, 
elastic, reniform, sometimes infundibuliform and lobed, pruinose, the cuticle 
breaking up into furfuraeeous scales, cinnamon, becoming pale. Stem $ to fin. 
(5 to 20 mm.), 1/12 to sin. (2 to 3 mm.) thick, coriaceous, dilated at the apex, 
ascending, pruinose, coriaceous. Gills ending determinately, thin, very narrow, 
crowded, connected by veins, ochracenus or cinnamon. Flesh eoncolorotis. Spores 
white, elliptical, 4 to 5x2 to 2.5 y. Cystidia on the edge of the gills lanceolate, 
at first clavate. Taste very astringent. Poisonous. On dead stumps and fallen 
branches. ’ ’ — Rea. 
***"'*Pileus membranaceous-coriaceous, gills coriaceous, branched, obtuse. 
XEROTUS Fr. 
(Gr., xeros, dry; outs, an car.) 
“Pileus membranaceous-coriaceous, regular. Stem central, confluent with the 
pileus. Gills coriaceous, broadly pliraeform, dichotomous, edges entire, obtuse. 
Spores white, elliptical, irregular.’’ — Rea. 
Species of this genus have not so far been collected in South Australia. The 
pretty X. fuUginosus B. et (_’. is not uncommon on sticks in the coastal part of 
New South Wales. 
