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506. Fanus lateritius. Sacc. Hedw. 1889, 125. 
Dimidiate, sessile, orbicular or lunate, membranaceous, tough, 
margin at first obtusely involute, soon straight, acute, tan-coloured, 
sprinkled with evanescent brick-red punctiform flocci (8-10 m.m. 
broad) ; gills rather remote, few (10-12), entire, and dimidiate 
narrow, rather hard, somewhat ocbrey ; spores ovate-ellipsoid, 9-10 
X 6-6| fx, even, hyaline. 
On rotten wood of Eucalyptus. Kangaroo Island. 
507. Fanus eugrammus. Mont. Fr. Nov. Sym. 40.= 
Lentinus eugrammus, Mont. Cuba 414, t. 17,/. 2-6. 
Sacc. Syll. 2573. 
Sessile, imbricate ; pilei coriaceous membranaceous, tough, 
dimidiate, reniform, thinly and radiately lineate, pallid, margin 
expanded, and then flabelliform-ovate (4-6 c.m. broad) ; gills 
convex, entire, of the same colour, soon turning reddish, acute at 
both ends. 
On bark. Queensland. 
508. Fanus olivaceo-fuscus. Che. 4' Mass. Grev. xvi., 1. 
Pileus sooty-brown (fuliginous), very densely velvety, with 
yellowish-olive down, hard, compact (i-1 in. broad), sessile, 
imbricate, shell-shaped, margin incurved; gills radiating, rather 
distant, broad, thin, unequal (sooty when dry) ; spores narrowly 
elliptic, 4 x 2 p. 
On burnt wood. Victoria. N.S.Wales. 
509. Fanus saccharinus. Berk. FI. Tasm. II., 250. Sacc. 
Syll. 2578. 
Pileus reniform, horizontal, rather fleshy (7-12 m.m. diam.) ; 
stem short, mealy, or obsolete ; gills with the margins glandular. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. 
510. Fanus patellaris. Fries Hym. Eur. 490. Sacc. Syll. 
2588. 
Resupinate, coriaceous, flat cup-shaped, orbicular, externally 
pallid, mealy or villous, adnate by the vertex, margin involute (10- 
15 m.m. diam.); gills concurrent, dark ochre. 
On branches. Queensland. 
511. Fanus angustatus. Berk, in Herb. 
Pileus spathulate (1-2 c.m. broad, 2-3 c.m. long), tough, nearly 
sessile, tawny, clad with a few minute scattered hairs, attenuated 
behind into a white downy base ; gills unequal, crowded, narrow, 
white. 
On logs. Queensland. 
Genus 16. XEROTTJS. Fr. Ep. p. 48. 
Hymenophore continuous with the stem, descending in a similar 
trama into the coriaceous pileus ; gills coriaceous, fold-like, dicho- 
tomous, with the edge entire and obtuse. 
