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THE LARGER FUNGI 
Systematic Description of the Species of 
Poiyporaceae, Hydnaceae, &c. 
BASIDIOMYCETAE. 
HOMOBASIDIAE. 
HYMENOM'2 GET ALES — continued. 
POLYPORACEAE. 
Hyinenium lining the insides of tubes, poi'es or pore-like si)aees. 
I. BOLETEAE. 
llymenium soft, separable from the pileus, lining the inside of fleshy tubes, at 
first' covered by a veil, becoming fully exposed at maturity. 
Spores white or yellowish. 
GYROPORUS (Quel.) Pat. 
(Gr., gyros, round; poros, a pore.) 
‘ ‘ Pileus fleshv, tomentose or smootli. Stem central, velvety or glabrous, 
externally firm, ’ fragile, internally spongy, often cavernous, base immersed in 
the soil.' Pores white, then often yellowish, entire, round; tubes concolorous, 
free. Flesh white, firm, sometimes becoming blue on exposure to the air. Spores 
white or pale yellowish, oval, elliptical, pip-shaped or elliptic-oblong, smooth. 
Cystidia. clavate. Growing on the ground.” — Rea. 
280. Gyroporus caespitosiis Clel. (L., caespes, caespitis, a turf, hence 
caespitosus, growing in tufts). — Caespitose. Pileus up to din. (10 cm.) or more, 
convex and wavy, sometimes with the surface cracking, surface matt, dull and 
soft but sometiiues rather shiny. Cinnamon Buff to Clay Colour (xxix.)^ or near 
Isabella Colour (xxx.). I’ores rather small, beginning as minute, irregular 
reticulations, rather irregular, dissepiments thick, with a sulcus round the stem, 
pallid brownish white or' the colour of the pileus (near Ivory Yellow, xxx.), 
becoming pale wood colour when bruised, old or cut, tubes up to .1 to lin. 
(6 to 12 mm.) long, attenuated both ways. Stem up to olin. (8.7 cm.), s^wollen 
in the middle (updo If to 2in., 4 to 5 cm.), up to f to lin. (1.8 to 2.5 cm.) 
above and to If to liin. (2.8 to 3.7 cm.) beldw, surface matt, the colour_of the 
pileus, punctate with fine brownish granules. Flesh thick (up to lin., 2.5 cm.), 
white, turning brownish or yellowish-bi-own. Spores oval to subspheiical, wliite 
or slightly tinted, 8 to 8.9 x 5 to 5.5 y. Moderately strong smell, taste mild. 
South Australia — At the base of a dead Eucalyptus stump at Burnside near- 
Adelaide, National Par-k. New Soutli Wales. May, June. 
Spores pink. 
TYLOPILUS Karst. 
(Gr., 1ylos, a knot; pilos, a cap.) 
“Pileus villose or giabrescent. Stern central, reticulate, apex granular or 
smooth. Tubes wliite, then pinkish, adrrate or sinuate, long or short ; orifices 
of pores concolor-ous, angular or r-ound. Flesh unchangeable or slightly pinkish 
when exposed to the air. Spores pink, fusiform or oblong, smooth. Growing- 
on the ground. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No species yet recorded for South Airstralia. 
