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THE LARGER FUNGI 
yellow-brown hyphae, 2.5 to .1. 7 aiul thorn-like acuminate brown setae with 
broadened bases IS to 45 x 5 to 9 fi. In growing plants the narrow edge is paler 
and velvety, anil in olil plants the colour may be darker tlian l)ister. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty ? and locality unrecorded. New South M'ales. Tasmania. 
These plants do not (pute agree with English (Rea) or French (Bourdot and 
Galzin) descriptions of this species wliere the colour appears to be more bright 
(tawny cinnamon, umber cinnamon), the subiculum thicker (0.5 to 1 mm.), and 
the plants themselves uj) to 12 mm. thick. 
3511. Poria ferruginosa (Sclirad.) Fr. (Fames ferruginosus) (L., ferruginosus, 
rusl-coloured). — This species is ilescribed as being bright rusty, tlien rusty brown, 
the subiculum 1 mm., the ti'ama light (not heavy), the tubes cinnamon, 2 to 6 
mm. long, the pores rusty-brown, 4 to 5 in 1 mm., spores 4.5 to 5 x 2.75 to 3.4 g, 
cystidia abundant, deei) I'rown, 30 to 50 (to 150) x 0.8 g. A specimen forming 
a thin crust-like layer, darker than Tawny Olive (xxix.), on old mycelium, with 
o to 5\ pore moutlis in 1 mm. and with a few dark Irrown acuminate setae 
witli broadened bases, 27 x 7 ft, is referred to this species. New South Wales— 
Bull! Pass. Novemlier. 
354. Poria laevigata Fr. (L., hu vigatus, made smooth). — Forming a circum- 
scribed raised growth 12 x 5.5 cm., Drab (xlve.), Wood Brown (XL.) in certain 
lights, tlic rather broad sloping neaidy smootli to subtomentose sterile edge 
between Wood Brown and Butfy Brown (XL.), the context near Brussels Brown 
(m.). It is intimately attached to the suli.jacent bark, in the centi’e being about 
5 mm. tliick or 7 to 8 mm. if the infiltrated outer bark be included. The pores 
are oblique, minute, aliout 5 to (i in 1 mm., disseihments roumled, spores hyaline, 
oval, ().5 X 4.8 ft- llyphae brown, about 3.5 g. A few brown acuminate setae, 
19 to 30 X 7.5 g. South Australia (probably). 
355. Poria sublaevigata Clel. et Rodw. (Ku-b, here neai- the species P. laerigata 
Fr.). — Forming patches up to 12 x 2 cm., with outlying small pore, -bearing islands 
2 or 3 nim. in diameter, up to 4 mm. thick in tlie centre, shelving to the edge 
wliich is fairly sharply detinod and in tlie growing part outlined by a narrow 
]>aler more gilvous zone near Bucktliorn Brown (xv.). Pore surface glancing 
with tlie angle of light, paler than Dresden Brown (xv.) to much darker when 
old. Occasional sterile patches sometimes as a perijiheral rim, subtomentose 
(microscopically finely strigose). Subiculum practically none. Cut surface wood- 
colour, not so ilark as in P. laevigata-. Orifices about 5 to (i in 1 mm., dissepi- 
ments thin, microsco})ically strigose. Spores hyaline, subspherical, oblique, with 
a large gutta, (i.8 x 5.2 g. llyphae yellow brown, 4 g. Setae dark brown, 
varying much, slightly curved or straight, acuminate, with ventricose bases, 19 
to 35 X 5 to 7.5 g. (in small branches. New South Wales. 
35(i. Poria uncinata Weir (L., inichiatus, armed with hooks, in reference to 
the setae). — Forming raised masses 9 x 5 cm. or more in size and 1.5 cm. thick, 
the edges raised and subdeterminate, in colour a little darker than Brussels Brown 
(III.), on section more gilvous in parts and near Antique Brown (m.), covering 
the charreil surface of an old stump. The fungus is moderately heavy, not 
extremely light. Sterile portions are subvillose. Tubes mostly short (about 2 
mm.) and the subiculum considerable passing into the interjienetrating mycelium. 
Orifices minute, about 4 to 5 in 1 mm., a little angular, dissepiments rather 
rounded. Spores hyaline, subspherical, 5.5 x 3.7, 3.5 g. llyphae yellow-brown, 
thick-walled, calibre a little irregular, usually about 2.5 g, sometimes 3 g. Setae 
dark brown, thorn-like, with broad, sometimes flattened bases and acute or blunt 
ends, sometimes definitely hooked, thick-walled, 17 to 30 x 5 to 7.5 g at the bases. 
New South Wales. March. 
357. Poria subweirii Clel. et Rodw. (S-iib, here near the species P. Weirii 
Murrill). — Forming extensive patches, 10 cm. or more in extent, up to 20 mm. 
thick in the centre, thinning to 1 or 2 mm. at the edge, snbdeterminate, the 
tubes usually forming most of the thickness, near Argus Brown (m.), the 
context gilvous near Buckthorn Brown (xv.). Orifices of the tubes about 2| in 1 
mm., irregular, the thin dissepiments often defectivo so that one orifice is con- 
tinuous with a neighbour. In the substratum and also in the tubes, whitish 
hyiihal strands (iierhaps adventitious) are iutersiiersed in the gilvous matrix. 
Setae brown, long, pointed, 04 to 72 x S g at the base. Spores not seen. South 
Australia — On dead Casuariaa striata Ait., Mount Dutton, E.P. May. 
