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THE IjARGER EUXGI 
becoming ne;u' Bone Brown (XL.) in the centre. Tubes with a sulcus usualh’ 
slight round the stem, * to 5in. (1.^ to 1.8 cm.) deep, attenuated both ways, 
orifices 2 to neaidv 1 in 1 mm., rounded, sometimes rather gyrose, tubes and 
orifices Deep to Dai’k Olive Buff (XL.) to Colonial Buff (xxx.) and Chamois 
(XXX.), becoming discoloured dark brownish. Light Greyish Olive (XLVi.) when 
young. Stem 2 to 21in. (5 to (i.2 cm.), stout (5 to l)in., 1.8 to 4.2 cm., thick), 
verv bulbous when voung (up to 2in., 5 cm.). Deep Olive Buff (XL.), then 
Colonial Buff, finallv'dark brown (Fuscous, XLVi.) and punctate excej)t just below 
the tubes which is' pallid. Flesh palli<l, turning brownisli and nearlv blackish. 
Spores mummy-shape, brown-tinted, 9 to 12 x 2.2 to 4 /r. South Australia — 
In sandy soil. Encounter Bay; Kuitpo, Willunga Hill, Mount Lofty, MacDonnell 
Bay (S.E.). April to ,lune, September. 
Characterised by the large snuff-brown to wood-brown pileus, the olive buff 
tubes and orifices, the bulbous stem becoming dark brown and punctate except 
below the tubes, and the flesli becoming discoloured brownish. 
294. Boletus mollis Clel. (I.., mollis, soft). — Pileus 24in. (8.7 cm.), nearly 
plane, viscid, yellowish-brown to Mars Brown (xv. ). Hymenial surface convex 
with a deep sulcus rouml the stem, tubes up to lin. (2.5 cm.) deep, orifices 1 mm. 
in diameter, irregular, dissepiments thin, near Cinnamon Drab (XLVi.) and paler 
(dingy flesh-coloured). Stem Hin. (2.7 cm.), relatively slender (1 cm. in the 
middle), expanding above, slightly fibrillose, not reticulated, near Chestnut (li.) 
below, paler yellowish-brown alxive. Flesh (i mm. deep. Whole fungus soft. 
Spores mummy-shape, microscopically brownish, 47 to 18.7 x 5 fi. On the 
ground. South Australia — Xear Penola. May. 
11. POLYPOREAE. 
ITymenium exposed from the first, lining coherent tubes, sometimes toothed, or 
anastomosing plates. 
1. Receptacle ])ileate, not gelatinous. 
1. Tubes entire. 
A. Tubes usually in strata. 
a. Receptacle hard, woody or corky. Spores white or coloured. 
POMES Fr. 
(L., fames, tinder.) 
“Pileus hard, woody or corky, dimidiate, hoof-shaped or resupinate; sessile, 
often concentrically zoned, and covered with a rigid crust. Tubes homogeneous 
or heterogeneous, often stratose. Flesh ^yhite or coloured. Spores white or 
coloured; globose, subglobose, elliptical or elliptic-oblong; smooth. Cystidia 
present or absent, coloured or hyaline. Perennial. Growing on wood.” — Rea. 
The genus Fames comprises perennial fungi, often largo and heavy, with a 
liard, woody or corky textuie, and with the tubes usuallv arranged in strata, 
representing annual additions. Most of oui' s})ecies, some of which are quite 
common, have the substance yellowish-brown in colour. Several are destructive 
parasites of forest trees. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Context yellowish-brown. 
Spores mostly or all hyaline. 
Large, massive, lioof-shaped. Context Sudan 
Vu’own to buckthorn brown. Brown setae 
sometimes present. Orifices 5 to 6 in 
1 mm 295. Foynes rohustus. 
TjBSS massive. Context tending to be darker. 
Occasional brown setae. Orifices 2 in 
f mm 296. F. rohustus var. 
Melalemcae. 
