206 
THE LARGER FUNGI 
Context ocln-aceous salmon to russet. 
Brackets fleshy when fresh, up to I-' x Sin. Pileus 
brown, villose to hispid. Pores pallid turning 
brown. On Eucalypt trunks 324. Polyporus pelles. 
Context olive brown to sayal brown and snuft' brown. 
Eorming thin l)rackets, descending behiird. Pileus 
velvety to verv rough, pinkisli buff to pallid 
buffy ‘brown. 'Tubes near drab 339. Trametes protect. 
Context brown to gilvous. 
Spores hyaline. 
Large (3in.), firm. Crust pale, glabrous. 
Tubes 1.5 cm. long. No setae. Spores 
hyaline, 4 y 325. Polyporus 
Victoriensis. 
Hoof-shaped, triangular in section, SiTi. across. 
Crust ochraceous tawny. Hymenial surface 
descending, convex, brown with glaucescence. 
No setae (in Australian plants). On living 
Eucalypts 
More or less bracket-shaped, 3in. or more 
laterally, iin. thick. Pileus snuff brown, 
granular to strigose. Context bright gilvous. 
Hymenial surface liorizontal, snuff brown. 
Setae usually abundant. On dead wood . . 
Eorming minute brackets, usually on a 
resupinate surface, Brussels brown. Setae 
prominent 
Spores brown. 
Often large, applanate, 1 to lin. thick. Pileus 
tomentose becoming smooth, warm sepia. 
Tubes to 1 cm., snuff brown, orifices 4 in 1 
mni. Context sayal brown to warm sepia. 
Setae none or few 
32(). Polyporus dryadeus. 
.327. Polyporus gilvus. 
328. Polyporus 
suhcontigua. 
329. P. Ludovicianm. 
Thicker, rather applanate. Pileus smooth. 
Orifices 2 to 3 in 1 mm. Context Brussels 
brown with satiny sheen. Acuminate setae. . 330. P. Patoiiillardii. 
A. Stipitate species. 
310. Polyporus arcularlus (Batsch) Fr. (L., arcitla, a casket). — Stipitate with 
a slender more or less central stem. Pileus up to 1-iin. (3.1 cm.), thin, convex 
with the centre often deeply depressed and hole-like, smooth, with the edge 
in-turned and sometimes fimbriate, near M'arm Buff (xv.) or near Clay Colour 
(XXIX.). Hymenial surface pallid brownisli (near Cinnamon Buff, xxix., 
becoming when old dai'ker than Verona Brown, xxix. ; near Clay Colour, xxix. ), 
pore orifices rather large (nearly 1 mm. diameter), somewhat decurrent, angular, 
dissepiments tliin, tubes up to 4 mm. deep. Stem about “in. (18.5 mm.), slender, 
subfibrillose, brown. Flesh very thin, about 1 mm. Spores (i to 8 x 3.2 y. 
South Australia — Mount MacIntyre (S.E.). New South Wales. Victoria. 
December. 
311. Polyporus melanopus (Swartz) Fr. (Syn. P. Pancheri, Pat.) (Gr., melas, 
black; pous, a foot). — Stipitate, rarely spathu'late. Pileus up to IJin. (3.7 cm.), 
convex with the centre depressed, innately strigose becoming smooth. Dusky Drab 
(XLV.) to dark brown, rarely very pallid (darker and browner than Pinkish Buff, 
XXIX), occasionally zoned' (Chocolate, xxvii., in zones, greyish between). 
Hymenial surface pallid greyish buff, near Avellaneous (xl.) or Pinkish Buff 
(XXIX.), deeply decurrent on tlie stem, orifices minute, 4 to 5 in 1 mm., angular, 
dissepiments thin, tubes 1 to 1.5 mm. deep, at first very shallow. Stem lin. 
(2.5 cm.) or more, sin. (9 mm.) thick, central or sometimes exeontric, sometimes 
flattened, often irregular, villous and ,dark fuscous brown or blackish at the 
base. Context paler than Pinkish Buff (xxix.), 2 mm. or more thick. Spores 
5.2 to 9 X 2.5 to 3.7 y. On the ground, sometimes attached to rotting wood. 
South Australia — Mount Lofty Kange, The Meadows. New South Wales. June, 
August. 
