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Hymenium lilac or purplish. 
Usually effuso-reflexecl. Pileus pallid or 
greyish, villosely tomentose. Subhvmenial 
cystidia vesiculose .' . . . . 406. .S’, purpureum. 
I'sually entirely resupinate. Vinaceous lilac 
to vinaceous purple, becoming brownish drab 
to snufl: brown. .Subhymenial cystidia 
projecting, acuminate, rough, coloured . . 407. S. ‘umhrinum. 
400. Stereiim elegans Meyer. (L., elegans, elegant). — Sometimes single or 
nearly so, usually densely eaespitose, confluent and imbricate and often forming- 
extensive rosette-shaped masses, 1 to IJin. (2.5 to 4.:i cm.) higli. Tlie slender 
stems expand gradually as they pass into the ]jilei, tending to fuse when close 
together, the pilei, up to lin. (2.5 cm.) or more broad, frequently unite with 
neighlrours by their edges and secondary smaller pilei mav arise in the more' 
or less funnel-sliaped depressions thus forming. Pilei irregularly infundil)uliform 
with thin niM-gins, glabrous, tlie edges frayed or irregularly lobod, usually 
Cinnamon, Pinkish Cinnamon, Cinnamon Buff, Cinnamon Rufous (xiv. ), some- 
times Tawny (XV.) with deeper coloured zones near Mars Brown (xv.). 
Hymenium somewhat rugose. Pinkish Buff to Cinnamon Buff (xxix.) or Vinaceous 
Fawn (XL.), sometimes presenting a glaucous bloom. Spores subspherical, 
smootli, hyaline, 5 to (i x 3.5 to 4 g. On the ground at the bases of Euoalypt 
trunks or near fallen wood. .Soutli Australia — National Park, Mount Lofty. 
Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. May to July. 
401. Stereum hirsutum (Wilhl.) Fr. (L., hirmtux, hairy).— Eeflexed, sometimes 
more or less resupinate, often forming imbricate masses several inches in vertical 
or hoi’izontal extent, up to lin. (2.5 cm.) from before backwai-ds, irregularly 
convex, wavy and folded, strigosely hairy, margin somewhat wavy and obtuse, 
subzoned, Ochraceous Tawny (xv.) becoming pallid, near Cinnamon Brown (xv.). 
Antique Brown (m.). Warm Buff (xv.) or Cinnamon Buff (xxix.). Hymenium 
somewhat irregularly concave, smooth or sliglitly rugose. Warm Buff (Xv.) or 
deeper. Flesh coriaceous, firm, tougli. Spores elliptical, incurved, hyaline, (i to 
8 X .3 to 4 /i. No cystidia. Common on stumj)s and logs. South Australia — 
Mount Lofty, National Park, Warren Reservoir, Kuitpo. May to August, 
Octobei’. 
402. Stereum vellereum Berk. (L., vdlus, velleris, a fleece of wool) .—Reflexed 
or effuso-reflexed, often forming imbricate masses several inches in extent, broadly 
attached or often in our South Australian plants fan-shaped with a ct)ntracted 
base, usually about Jin. (1.2 cm.) from before backwards, strigosely liairy, 
subzoned, pale wood-colour or greyish pallid (near Pinkish Buff, xxix., Tawiiy 
Olive, XXIX., becoming dark greyish brown near the attachment). Hymenium 
even, smooth, greyish buff (near Avellaneous, xl.. Pinkish Buff, xxix., or Tawny 
Olive, XXIX., to Sayal Brown, xxix.). Spores 5.5 to 6 x 2 /r. Hyphae thick- 
walled, 4 to 7 /ii. On stem of Eucalypts, fallen brandies, etc. South Australia — 
Mount Lofty, National Park, Stirling West, Kuitpo, Encounter Bay, Warren 
Reservoir, Clare (on dying branches of Eucalypts, perhaps killing these). Port 
Lincoln. .January, May to August, October. (Figure 56.) 
403. Stereum radiate -fissum Berk, et Br. (L., radiatus, here radiating; fissus, 
cleft). — Specimens, identified by Dr. C. G. Lloyd as this siiecies and coming 
from the same locality (Mount Lofty) and habitat as specimens identified by 
him as S. velletx\um., seem only distinguished from the latter by being fissured 
into multiple blunt lobes (as in his figure 119, Myoological Notes, No. 52, Dec., 
1917, p. 746, in wliicli the fissures extend deeply). The surface is rather eoarselv 
hirsute and subzoned, the liymenium of tlie same colour as in S. vellerevin. 
Lloyd found, however, in these specimens branched paraphyses (dendrojiliysen) . 
South Australia — On trunks of the stringy-bark (Eucalyptus Baxteri (Benth.) 
Maid, et Blak.), Mount Lofty (spores 6 to 7 x 2.5 to 3 y.). 
404. Stereum illudens Berk. ;L., iUudens, mocking). — Effuso-reflexed, up to 
4in. (10 cm.) or more laterally, S to Jin. (10 to 19 mm.) deep, piloso-strigose, 
especially at the edge, pileus more or less contracted to its attachment which is 
sometimes (juite narrow, somewhat zoned, brownish near Bister (xxix.), paler 
or darker than Vandyke Brown (xxviii.), near Verona Brown (xxix.). 
Hjmienium smooth, or a little irregular, glaucous (light mouse grey), beneath 
the bloom Vinaceous Drab (XLVi.), Brownish Drab (xlvi.), near Sorghum 
