OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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The following South Australian specimen may be this species: — Not a pure 
white, w'ith rusty discolofation at tlie edges which are more indetei'ininate, pores 
deeper and smaller, about 0.25 mm. wide, and dissepiments thinner, spores f 
subspherical, 4 ix, hyphae thick-walled, irregular, 2 to 5.5 n thick. 
PHLEBIA Fr. 
(Gr., phleps, phleboft, a vein.) 
‘ ‘ Eeceptacle waxy or subgelatinous, becoming cartilaginous when dry ; erect 
or resupinate and effused, llymenium from the first covering radiating, obtuse 
wrinkles or veins, continuous or broken up into tubercles, rarely smooth, fertile 
on the edge. Spores white; elliptical, reniform, oblong, or cylindrical; smooth. 
Oystidia none. Growing on wood, rarely on the ground.” — Rea. 
.188. Phlebia reflexa Berk. (L., reflexua, bent back).— Effuso-reflexed, the 
reflexejl portion often very narrow, sometimes with rather imbricate i)ilei, up to 
2in. (5 cm.) laterally and |in. (18 mm.) from before back, concentrically sulcate, 
zoned, coarsely villose, dark brown to fuscous (near Natal Brown, xl.) becoming 
bleached greyish brown. llymenium wlien moist irregularly wrinkled, rather 
soft and gelatinous, purplisli brown with a wliitish bloom or purple chocolate- 
coloured with an orange tint in jdaces; when dry Fuscous (xlvi.)', paler round 
the edge, growing edge Ochraceous Buff (xv.). 'Spores sausage-shaped with an 
oblique apiculus and occasional guttae, white, 7 to 8.5 x .1.5 g. South Australia — 
Mount Lofty, National Park, Clare. Now South Wales. xVj)ril, May, July, 
August. 
PLICATUEA Peck. (TROGIA Fr. p.p.) 
(L., plieatus, folded; Gr., oura, a tail.) 
‘‘Pilous spongy coriaceous, soft, flaccid; dimidiate, sessile or substipitate. 
llymenium covering obtuse veins, gill-like in front, crisped and branched behind, 
fertile on the edge. Spores white; oblong or cylindrical; smooth. Oystidia none. 
Growing on wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
IV. FISTULINEAE. 
llymenium inferior, lining free and separate tubes. 
PISTULINA (Bull.) Fr. 
“Pileus fleshy, subgelatinous in the upper layer, stipitate or sessile. Stem 
lateral or none. Tubes at first papillose, then cylindrical, distinct and free 
from each other. Spores coloured, "elliptical, smooth. Conidia present in tho 
tissues. Growing on w'ood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
389. Fistulina hepatica (Huds.) Fr. (Gr., hepatikos, belonging to the liver). — 
‘‘Pileus 2 to 12in. (5 to 30 cm.), roundish, dimidiate or subspathulate, sessile or 
stipitate, rough, thick, fleshy, viscid, bloo'd red, pale purplish red, liver-coloured, 
or chocolate becoming blackish. Stem wlien present 1] to 23in. (3 to 7 cm.), x | 
to ISin. (2 to 4 cm.), punctate, concolourous. Tubes pallid, becoming reddish, 
separate; orifices of tubes pale, round. Flesh reddish, marbled like beet root, 
fibrous, distilling a red pellucid juice, % to liin. ( 2 to 3 cm.) thick. Spore.s. 
pink, subglobose, 4.5 to 5 x 4 p,, wfltli a large central gutta. Taste somewhat 
acrid, especially when young. Edible. On trunks of trees. ’ ’ — Rea. South Aus- 
tralia — Specimens collected at Mount Lofty on dead stumps and at the base of 
Eucalypts were rather flabelliform in shape, 3in. (7.5 cm.) deep and wide, villous, 
dark brown (near Rood’s Brown, xxviii.), pore orifices near Japan Rose (xxviii.), 
the tubes separate, coral pinky-brown, then brownish-pink; flesh wflth brown iind 
paler layers; spores, whitish, 4.8 x 3.2 p. New South Wales. Victoria. Europe, 
etc. May, .Tune. (Figures 53 and 54.) 
