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B. Setae absent or few and hard to find. 
35S. Poria Friesiana Bros. (After Elias Magnus Fries, i 794-1 878, the eminent 
Swedish inyeologist). — ‘‘A^idely extended, 5 to 20 cm., in a plague or pad, 0.5 to 
2.5 cm., the sid)iculuni tliin or almost nom', bright cinnamon to umber cinnamon, 
the border almost none or ])ubescent fawny cinnamon, the tubes stratified up to 
7 mm. long, the ])ores fine, 4 to 5 in 1 mrn., rusty cinnamon, umber or tobacco- 
coloured with a greyish j)ruinosity, hazel, mycelium inile fawn or sulphur, spinules 
usually absent, spores hyaline, then pale cream, subglobular, 0.5 to 8 x 5 to 0.8 g. 
The spores when long in the tubes may become brownisli. ’ ’ — Bourdot and (talzin. 
In Australia, this is a. variable species forming usually thin patches, 1 to 3 
mm. thick and up to 12 x 2.5 cm. in size, sometimes thicker plaques up to 7 mm. 
thick with the tubes stratose, the border often fairly defined and sliglitlv raised, 
sometimes with outlying islands, the sterih- edge almost absent or narrow and 
pubescent, the pores often oblitiue, when horizontal minute, 41 to 5 in 1 mm., in 
colour near Sudan Brown (ill.) or more gilvous, the older pores becoming darker 
near Brussels Brown (lll.), sometimes very dark, the hyj)hae yellow lirown, 
sometimes varicose, 2 to 4.2 /t thick, spores subspherical or subspherical triangular 
with a small gutta, (i to 7 x 5 to 5.5 /i, 5.5 to (i.5 y, usually hyaline but often 
slightly, sometimes decidedly, brown, two doubtful setae seen. Tasmania. New 
South "Wales. Victoria. .Tune to August. 
.359. Poria Carteri Berk. (A surname). — “Ferruginous, effused, very thin, 
light, with the margin scarcely strigose, the tubes short, pores punctiform, round, 
equal, very minute, the dissei)iments thick. The ])ores much smaller than any 
other of the ferruginous species. ’ ’ — Berkeley. 
■\n Australian specimen from Katoomba, New South Wales, December, forms 
a thickish hard adherent patch, about (1 x 5 cm. and (1 mm. thick in the centre, 
Ochraceous Tawny to Buckthorn Brown (xv.), the tubes oblique, tlie pores very 
fine about 5 in 1 mm., the subiculum less than half the thickness, hyphae yellow- 
brown, usually about 3 ti, setae not seen. Specimens from Bunya Mountains, 
Queensland, form large thick j)atches, 10 cm. or more long and up to 1.5 cm. thick. 
Fomcs-like, consisting mostly of the pores, the context relatively narrow, the tubes 
near Argus Brown (in.), the orifices Warm Sepia to Bister (xxix.) and darker. 
The tubes are 7 to 13 mm. <leep, the orifices nearly sealed up and vei v minute, 
about (1 in 1 mm., regular, the (lisse])iments rather rounded, ddie plant shelves 
towards the determinate edge with a broad sterile almost crusted surface of the 
same colour as the pore orifices and up to 2 cm. wide. Hyphae yellow-brown, 
tliick-walled, 2.5 to 3 /i in diameter. Setae not seen. Spores white, subspherical, 
5 to (i A- 
3(50. Poria brunneo-adherens Clel. et Rod.w. (L., hrunneust, brown; adherens, 
a<lhering, in reference to the attachment). — Forming e.xtensive (10 to 20 cm.) 
brown determinate patches intimately ailherent to tlie underlying wood and verv 
diffieult to detach, thin at the periphery but in old plants up to 4 mm. tliick in 
the centre. Tlie colour varies as viewed from different angles and reflected b^' 
the glancing mouths of the tubes from near Wood Brown (XL.) or lighter than 
Cinnamon Brown (xv.) to darker than Prout’s Brown (xv.), when old becoming 
a very dark brown, on section near Cinnamon Brown. Pores exceedingly minute, 
about (i to 7 in 1 mm., often oblique, shallow near the edge, the dissepiments thin 
and not setulose. Subiculum very thin, most of the sulistance being composed 
of the old filled tubes. Hyphae yellowish-brown, 2.5 to 4 Occasional short, 
acuminate, dark brown setae found ((i x 3, 11 x 4, 30 x 7 fi, etc.). S]iores hyaline, 
subspherical, 5 x 3.7 y. Forming extensive patches on the undersides of old 
logs. South Australia — Inman Valley, National Park. .Tanuary, .Tuly, August. 
The chief characteristics of the species consist in the extensive intimately 
adherent dull brown patches becoming very dark when old, in the minute size of 
the pores and their glancing mouths and the diflicultv in fin<ling the sliort dark 
blown setae. Tlie specific name refers to the colour and to the intimate adherence 
of the idant to the underlying matrix. 
301. Poria luteo-fulvus Clel. et Rodw. (L., luteus, pale yellow'; fulvus, 
tawny). — Forming patches up to 12 x 2 cm., up to 2 mm. thick, the surface 
between Chamois (xxx.) and Warm Buff (xv.), becoming Tawny Olive, on 
section O^hracoous Tawny (xv.), the pores very oblique, lacerated, about 3 in 
1 mm. The substance turns brown when bruised. Hyphae yellow brown, thick- 
w'alled, rather irregular in calibre, 4 to 6,5 fj- Australia, 
