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.380. Poria purpurea Fr. (L., purpureus, pur])le). — Forming small to extensive 
thin adherent ill-detined patclios sometimes 8in. (20 cm.) or more long, with 
the pores at tii'st meruloid, and in which vinaceous purple tints are present in 
places, though sometimes the predominsuit colour may be a ]mle buff passing into 
a tawny olive. Spreading edge indefinite, filmy, byssoid to villous. Light Buff 
(XV.), Pale Pinkish Buff (xxix.) to Crea.m Buff (xxx.), sometimes with 
vinaceous tints which may also appear in tlie substratum. As the substance 
increases in thickness, eventually reaching 1 mm., pores develop, first as shallow 
reticulations (often purplish), ])roducing alveoli varying in size, averaging alrout 
in 1 mm., sometimes 5 in 1 mm., the pore surface tlius produced pale Miff in 
colour, but in parts Dark Purple Drab ami A'inaceous Drab (XLV.) or Perilla 
Purple (xxxvii.). As the pores develop they increase in depth to reacli in places 
nearly .1 mm., forming most of the substance ; the orific.es vary in size, about 3 in 
I mm., some 0.5 mm. in diameter, others 0.25 mm. or even 0.10 mm., the dis- 
sepiments thin or in places thicker ami rounded or sometimes the pores may 
appear like pinholes widely separated from each other. Eventually the thicker 
pai'ts of the pore layer may assume a Tawny Olive (xxix.) tint, llyphae 
whitish, septate, thick-walled, irregular, branching at right angles, 3.5 to 5 fi. 
8hed spores slightly curved, narrow, rod-shaped, cream-coloured to white, -1.2 to 
5.5 X 2 /j.. South Australia — Humbug Sci'ub, National Park. New South Wales. 
Europe. April, May. 
381. Poria vincta Berk. (L., vincttm, bound, girt). — This is a variable species, 
vinaceous fawn to pinkish cinnamon in colour ami 1 to 6 mm. in thickness. Thick 
specimens from New South Wales and Queensland form extensive patches 10 cm. 
or more long and u[) to 4 cm. wide, in colour near Vinaceous Fawn ;ind Avellaneous 
(XL.) becoming browner, varying in thickness from 1 to 5 mm., the edges 
irregular but sharply defined with a very narrow paler sterile edge. Substance 
corky to woody, near Avellaneous. Pore mouths very minute, about (> in 1 mm., 
dissepiments rounded. Spores (apparently) subspherical, 2.5 to 5 /r. llyphae 
whitish, about 3 y. thick, with much granular material. Tliin forms from Tas- 
mania, and Mount I^ofty, South Australia;, form patches up to 7 x 4 cm., Pinkish 
Cinnamon, Cinnamon ami Clay Colour (xxix.), or between Light Pinkish Cinna- 
mon and Pinkisli Cinnamon but darker, or near Inght Ochraceous Buff (xv.), or 
Light Vinaceous Cinnamon, oi’ paler than to <leeper than Light Pinkish Cinnamon 
becoming when old near Cinnamon (xxix.) to Cinnamon Rufous (xiv.) or 
browner than Cinnamon near Sayal Biown (xxix.), rather indeterminate, with the 
sterile edge paler and sub-byssoid, occasionally with a reflexe<l villose border 
above, forming a narrow pileate shelf, membranaceous, very thin (usually under 
0.5 mm., rarely nearly 1 mm. thick), pore orifices minute 0.08 to 0.13 mm., (ij to 
II in 1 mm., finely setulose, dissepiments thin. May to August, October. 
382. Poria attenuata Peck. (L., attenvatus, made thinner). — Forming irregular 
patclies up to 7 x 3 cm. in the hollows and interstices of a rotting rinus log. 
Tlie sterile mycelium is extensive, villose, and pallid ochraceous, as the pores 
develop, first as minute pits, be<‘oniing Ochraceous Salmon (xv.), passing as the 
tubes elongate to near Argus Brown (lll.) and when old liecoming darker near 
Burnt Umber (xxvili.). Tlie fungus is firmly adherent to the substratum. The 
brown pores eventually form a layer up to 2 mm. thick, resting on the light pale 
decaying wood without any obvious substratum. Tlie orifices are exceedingly 
minute, about 6 in 1 mm., slightly variable in size, the dissepiments rounded, 
llyphae whitish, irregular, branching irregularly, with transverse connections 
and much debris, 2 to 4.S p. South Australia — Beaumont, near Adelaide. United 
States of America. .June. 
111. Receptaxde more or less gelatinous. 
aLOEOPOEUS Montague. 
(Gr., gloia, jelly.) 
“ Receptacle usually small, leathery or viscid-fleshy. Hymenium gelatinous as 
in Tremella. Pores rounded, contracted wJien dry, when moistened swollen 
gelatinous. ’ ’ — Killermann. 
The only species W'e have is not small but forms narrow' bra.ckets sometimes 
din. 01 ' more in lateral extent. It is essentially a Folyporus with the hvmenium 
subgelatinous when moist. 
