AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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-512. Xerotus tener. B. 4" Br. Ceylon Fungi 426. Sacc. 
Syll. 2599. 
Pileus kidney-shaped, thin, membranaceous, umber, powdery 
{12 m.m. broad) ; stem very short ; gills of the same colour, very 
narrow, interstices even. 
On dead wood. Queensland. (Pig- 48). 
513. Xerotus proxinius. B. & Br. Linn. Trans. II., 56, t. x., 
f. 11, 13. Sacc. Syll. 2601. 
White; pileus suborbicular, delicately powdery (l^-3j c.m. 
broad) ; stem lateral or subventral (12-13 m.m. long) ; gills de- 
current, interstices veined. 
On branches. Queensland. 
514. Xerotus papuasius. Kalch. Grev. vm., t. 144, f. 20. 
Sacc. Syll. 2606. 
Subcsespitose, smooth, ochraceous tan-colour. Pileus between 
membranaceous and coriaceous, convex, deeply depressed at the 
vertex (£-1 in. broad), margin deflexed, radiately sulcate ; stem 
stuffed then fistulose, slightly thickened downwards, powdered with 
white (1-2 in. high, 1-2 lines thick) ; gills adnate, decurrent, 
straight, scarcely branched, entire. 
On bark. N.S. Wales. 
515. Xerotus Rewakensis. Pers. Fr. Epic. I., 401. Sacc. 
Syll. 2607. 
Smooth, cinnamon ; pileus coriaceous or membranaceous, plane, 
then infundibuliform, margin sulcate (1-2 c.m. diarn.) ; stem solid, 
short, equal (1 c.m. long) ; gills distant, plicate on the side and 
■connected. 
On wood. Queensland. 
516. Xerotus albidus. B. <$• Br. Linn. Trans, n., 56, t. x., 
f. 14, 15. Sacc. Syll. 2609. 
Whitish ; pileus kidney-shaped, smooth, rather bygrophanous, 
margin striate (lJ-24 c.m. broad) ; stem lateral, smooth, or a little 
velvety (6-7 m.m. long) ; gills few, reaching the stem, interstices 
even. 
On wood. Queensland. 
517. Xerotus Berterii. Mont. Chil. vii., 353. Sacc. Syll. 
26H. 
Gregarious ; pileus sessile, coriaceous, or membranaceous, 
smooth, kidney-shaped, striate, ferruginous (2-3 c.m. broad) ; gills 
broad, repeatedly dichotomous, violet, pruinose with cinereous, in 
front connected by veins. 
On fallen branches. Queensland. 
518. Xerotus lateritius. B. C. Linn. Journ. x., 303. 
Sacc. Syll. 2613. 
Pileus suborbicular, fixed by the vertex, sulcate, brick-red (1-2 
cm. diam.) ; gills distant, rather broad, entire, black. 
On dead bark. Queensland. 
