204 
THE LAR(JER FUXGI 
or coloured. Spores white or coloured, elliptical, pip-shaped, globose, subglobose, 
pruniform, oblong or elliptic fusiform; smooth, punctate or verrucose. Cystidia 
present or absent, hyaline or coloured. Annual or perennial, (trowing on wood 
or on the ground; solitary, caespitose, ind)ricate or connate at the base.” Rea. 
The genus Folyponis comprises a large number of annual species of polypores, 
stalked or sessile, of a fleshy-firm to corky texture, the tubes forming a layer 
distinct from the substance of the pileus. Amongst Australian species are some 
very remarkable ones, such as the fungus known as ‘ ‘ Blackf cllow ’s Bread” and 
other related species which ])ossess large underground tuber-like structures, 
sometimes intermixed with sand, from which after rains the stalked fruiting- 
bodies develop. Other species, such as P. ('olennoi and P. anthmcophilus, consist 
of masses of branching stems bearing pilei, and may be found at the bases of 
some ot our Eucalypts. P. eucalyptorum is a large sessile species growing high 
up on the trunks of gum trees. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF FOLYPOIIUS, POLYSTICTUS, AND 
TEAMETKS. 
STIPITATE SPECIES OF POLYPOliUS AND POLYSTICTUS. 
Stem single, more or less centi-al. 
Smallish, mostly thin, rarely with the pileus an 
inch (2.5 cm.) across. 
Growing on tlie ground. 
Colour near cinnamon, pileus radiately 
fibrillose, piano-depressed .S31. Polystictus 
oblectans. 
AVarm buff to clay colour, pileus often 
deeply depressed, edge often fim- 
briate 310. Polyporua arcularms. 
Dusky drab to dark brown, rarely jrallid. 
Stem blackish, villose 311. Polyporua 
melanopus. 
On trunks of trees or fallen wood. 
Small, rarely (in., whitisli. Stem excen- 
tric, short, arising from the under 
surface 312. Polyponts rhipidium. 
Pileus 2 to 3 mm., pale snuff colour 
below the whitish bloom. Stem curved, 
short, arising from the upper surface. 
Under surface disc sliaped 313. Polyporua pocula. 
I..ai'ge, on the ground, with a true or false 
sclerotium. 
Pileus brown to cinnamon buff, hard, ])ittcd, 
witli true and false sclerotia 314. Polyporua 
haailapiloides. 
Pileus whitish with egg-yolk colour in 
centre, with a lar'ge true sclerotium 
(” Blackf ellow ’s Bread”) 315. Polyporua mylittae. 
Pileus with umber cuticle. Flesh white, 
not hard. Stem short. In burnt country, 
with false sclerotium 316. Polyporua tumuloaua. 
Large, on trunks or at bases of trees. 
Often deformed, pileus ochi'aceous tawnv to 
brown. Tubes becoming brown with a 
greenish-yellow glint. Stem usually excen- 
tric, irregular, ochraceous tawny. At bases 
of trees 317. Polyporua 
Schweinitzii. 
Deformed, ])ileus usually ill-defined, buff to 
vinaceous fawn. Tubes daedaloid. Contex 
near pinkish buff. Stem-like base ill- 
defined. At bases of trees 346. Daedalia biennia 
(Polyporua rufescena). 
