OF SOUTH iVUSTKALIA. 
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5.2 /i, 3.0 m). 8cratli Australia — At the base of Eucalyptus obliqua L’lTerit., 
Kuitpo. Xew South Wales. Alay (in South Australia). 
This is a rare species in South Australia but commoner in New South Wales. 
318. Polyporus Hartmanni Cooke. (A surname). — This s))ecies is a thick 
fleshy polypore, usually about 3in. (7.5 cm.) in diameter, with a rich somewhat 
chestnut-brown, rather velvety pileus and a short thick dark brown, velvety 
excentric stem. The spores in specimens collected at Bulli Pass, New South Wales, 
were 7 to 8.5 x 3.5 y. The species usually grows on the ground. (Figure 45.) 
[Fro/a wdtei'cnUmr hfj P. Cl/a'Jcc . 
Figure 45. — Poli/porus Ilutrl manni Cooke. (No. 318). Kendall, New 
South Wales. Reduced hy nearly |. 
A very large fleshy-tough Polyporus, weighing when fresh 51bs. and measuring 
12in. X 9in. x Sin. liigh (30 x 22.5 x 20 cm.), found growing about 12ft. up in 
the main fork of a large living Stringy-bark (Eucalyptus ohUgua L’llei'it.) at 
Blackwood Gully near Kuitpo Forest on March 31st, 1929, appears to belong 
to this species in spite of its large size and situation. Only a little light 
autumnal rain had fallen but this had probably collected in the fork tlius 
enabling a spore to germinate in the dust and debris therein accumulated, food 
material doubtless corresponding to that in the usual habitat on the ground 
under Eucalypts. The specimen was roughly trisuigular, composed of several 
superimposed brackets, the largest above, united together and gradually con- 
