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TlllO LAKCEK EUXOI 
HYMENOGKAMME Beik. ot Alont. 
(Ilymmimn, the sporc-lu'aring pint of the fungus; Gr., graitrmP, a sti'oke in 
writing, a line.) 
“ Iteeeptaele becoming i esupinat('. Ilynieniuni of thin, very narrow, 
anastomosing, foi-ked, ])arallel, line-forming, lamella-like elevations, resembling 
Lcnzites. ’ ’ — Killerniann. 
No species recorded for Australia, 
II. Receptacle res\ipinate, not gelatinous. 
PORI A (I’ers.) Fr. 
(Or., poroti, a pore.) 
“ I’ileus membranaceous, coriaceous or corky; entirely resupinate. Tubes round 
or angular, often directly inserted on the mycelium. Bpores white or coloured, 
elliptical, ])runiform, globose, subglobose, obovate, elli()tic oblong or cylindrical; 
smooth or punctate. (Vstidia present or absent, hyaline, rarelv coloured. Grow- 
ing on wood, rarely on the ground.” — Rea. 
In I’oria., of which we have a. number of species, the regular tubes, which are 
often (piite shallow, are seated usually <lirectly on the mycelium and there is no 
retlexed portion or attempt at pileus formation. 
KEY TO THE AUSTRALIAN I’OHIA.H AND Z'0/,7.I-LIKE FUNGI. 
1 . Ilypliae dull yellowish. General colour of plants, 
old gold. 
A. Setae present. 
Setae Ki5 to 190 x cS to ll.o Pores minute, 
() to 7 in 1 mm .‘149. Poria 
sctuloso-crocea. 
11. Setae few or absent. 
Pores 2 to 21 in 1 mm. . 950. Poria croccn. 
11. Ilypliae yellowish-brown and hence the substance 
brown of various shaih's. 
A. Setae present and readily demonstrable. 
Setae usually under 50 g long. 
Pores .'1 to 4 in 1 mm. 
Substance thin, tawny olive, Prout ’s 
brown, Brussels brown, tendency to 
[lileation in narrow brackets or in 
ungulate frustules with pallid 
[lores .'128. Polyporuft. 
svheontigua. 
Substance thin, wood brown to 
bulfv' brown, setae acuminate, 45 
X 9 V 551, 
Substance thin (in Australian 
[ilants), darker, snulf brown to 
bister, edge velvety, setae with 
broadened bases, 18 to 45 x 5 to 
9 m 552, 
Pores 4 to 7 in 1 mm. 
Ferruginous, tlien ferruginous brown, 
tawny, or cinnamon (Australian 
[ilant tawny olive), light (not 
iieavy), [lores 5 to (i in 1 mm., 
setae 27 to 50 x 7 m 555. 
Darker, umber brown or dark tawnv 
brown, subiculum almost none, thin 
or thick, pores 5 to (i in 1 
mm., setae ventricose, 15 to 50 x 
4 to 5.8 M 554. Poria laevigata. 
Poria Victoriae. 
Poria contigua. 
Poria ferrvgvnosa. 
