OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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Bistre (xxix.), dissepiments rounded, about the diameter of the tui)es. Spores 
elliptical, sometimes truncate, with the epispore prominent at one end, verrueose, 
brown, 10 to 11 x 7.5 ft. South Australia — On an old pepper-tree, Sohin'Ufi Molle 
L., Burnside; National Park; at the base of a pear-tree (Pyrus conmunis L.), 
Hall’s Creek, Encounter Bay. New South Wales. Victoria. Tasmania. 
Europe, etc. Perennial. 
This species, which may reach a very lai'ge size, is found near the bases of 
living trees or stumps an<l can be recognised by the brown somewhat lacoate 
crust, the ricli chocolate or umber-coloured context, and tuVtes which mav be 
relatively short or two inches long. Dr. G. 11. Cunningham, in New Zealand, 
distinguishes between G. applanatum and G. austral^ (Fr.) Cooke by the tubes 
being 0.18 to 0.2 mm. in diameter in the former and 0.27 to 0.3 mm. in the 
latter. 
309. G-anoderma polymorphum del. (Gr., polys, many; morphe, shape). — 
Sporophores and abortive sporophores more or less grotesquely shaj)ed, from 
nodular finger-shaped to lobed fan-shaped, with short or long lateral stems, the 
abnormal appearances being attributable to the situation in which the fungi 
liad developed, namely on timber in the relative darkness 30ft. down a well. 
The moi'e mature and normal forms show an upj>er surface which is (iin. laterally 
X fin. (15 X 10 cm.) in size in tlie largest example and 4 x 21in. (10 x 0.2 cm.) 
in a smaller one, irregularly plane to convex, obscurely concentricallv' suloate, 
irregularly rugose, witli a liar'd ci’ust between Rood ’s Brown and Vandyke Brown 
(xxvill.)," much like that of G. applanatum, showing no laccate appearance or 
merely in places a trace of this, the edge rounded, deeply or only slightly 
irregularly lobed. The crust of the upper surface is continuf'd on to the under- 
surface of the sporophore as a laccate rim, Chocolate (xxvni.) in colour., up to 
-lin. (1.2 cm.) wide. The tube-bearing portion is borne on a downward-projectin.g 
horizontal platform, up to 5 mm. deep on the remaining under surface, the side 
of the platform being laccate, sulcately zoned and chocolate in colour like the 
rim. Tubes 8 to 9 mm. deep, seated on an undulating or plane basis, near 
Avellaneus (xl.) to Pinkish Buff (xxix.), orifices Pale Pinkish Buff (xxix.), 
4 to 5 in 1 mm., rounded, dissepiments in thickness about tire diameter of the 
orifices. Context 3 to 8 mm., firm-corky, zoned in paler and deeper shades, 
Sayal Brown (xxix.) and paler. Snuff Brown (xxix.) and Pinkish Buff, the 
whole fungus very light in weight. Stem lateral, short and thick (lin. x iin., 
2.5 X 1.8 cm., to 3in. x gin., 7.5 x 1 cm.), in the larger specimens very 
irregular and gouty-nodular, strongly laccate, brown like the crust to very 
dark brown. Spores broadly pear-shaped, one end truncate, warty, brown, 10 to 
10.5 X 6.5 to 7.5 y. llyphae barely tinted. 
Abortive sporophores are up to 7in. (17.5 cm.) long, consisting of a cylindrical 
laccate blackish brown stalk with podagriform (gouty) swellings, 3in. (7.5 cm.) 
or more long, jin. (6 mm.) or more thick, fureately dividing 4 or 5 times to form 
approximated podagriform branches of varying thicknesses, passing into the 
brown of the crust and ending in pallid club-shaped extremities. Here and 
there on the under-side of broadly flattened branches, tubes may develop on the 
usual platforms. 
South Australia — On well timber 30ft. down, Moorilyanna, near the Everard 
Ranges, north-west of Soutli Australia. 
B. Tubes not in strata, 
a. Tubes at proximal ends even. 
1. Fleshy firm, relatively thick. Tubes forming a layer distinct from the 
substance of the pileus. 
POLYPORUS (Alicheli) Fr. 
(Gr., polys, many; poros, a pore.) 
“Pileus fleshy, cheesy, coriaceous or corky, often at length becoming hard 
witli age; entire, lobed, excentric or dimidiate, simple or branched. Stem 
central, lateral or none, simple or branched. Tubes liomogeneous or heterogeneous, 
long or short; orifice of pores round, angular, entire, torn or toothed. Flesh white 
