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This species grows on the ground and can often he traced to underlying buried 
pieces of rotting wood or sticks. The pileus is drab to eliocolate, occasionally 
pallid, and tlie stem, at least at the base, is minutely velvety and fuscous brown 
to black. In P. melanopus, the pilous is at first innately strigose to pruinose; 
in P. pici 2 >es Fr. and P. varius Fr., which also have black stems, both pileus 
ami stem ai'O glabrous. 
31;l. Polyporus rhipidium Bei'k. (as Favolus). (Perhaps from Gr., rhipis, 
rhipidos, a bellows). — Pileus convex, 3 to 5 mm. broad, minutelv tomentose, 
about 1 mm. thick, wliitish becoming Clay Colour (xxii.) when dry and edge 
incurving. Orifices about 3 in 1 mm., rounded or slightly radiately elongated, 
[Fhoio. hjj S. 
Figure 43 . — Polyporus pooula Schw. (No. 313). Kuitpo. 
dissepiments rounded in thickness about half the diameter of the orifices, tubes 
about 0.5 mm. thick, half the thickness of the pileus. Stem lateral, minutely 
tomentose, 1 to 2 mm. long. On dead bark and rotting wood. Spores 4.4 to 
5.2 X 2 to 2.5 p.. South Australia — Mount Lofty. New South "Wales. Queens- 
land. "S^ictoria. April, .luly. 
Tills is a neat-looking very small species, J to tin. in size, whitish becoming 
buff-tinted, with a lateral stem, found usually in considerable numbers on old 
wood or trunks. 
.313. Polyporus pocula Schw. (Syn., P. vup-ulif ormis B. et C.) (L., poculum, a 
cup or drinking pot). — Pileus 4 to Jin. (5 to 8 mm.) laterally x 4 to 7 mm., 
2 mm. thick, convex, pliant, brownish grey to ('love Brown (xi,.) with a hoary 
granular bloom becoming very maiked on drying and then cracking rimosely. 
Stem curved, 2 mm. long, O.ii to 1 mm. wide, attached near one side of the 
