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570. Boletus megalosporus. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 251, pi. 
182, fig. 3. Sacc. Syll. 4803. 
Pileus plane, nearly tan coloured ; stem thickened downwards, 
areolately verruculose, reticulate above ; pores flesh coloured ; 
spores large, 1-3 septate. 
On the ground in woods. Tasmania. 
571. Boletus lacunosus. Cke. Mass. Grev. xvm., 5. 
Pileus pulvinate, then expanded, soft, somewhat viscid, pallid, 
ochraceous, tawny, or rather brown (2-4 in. diam.). Stem nearly 
equal or attenuated upwards, deeply lacunose, pallid (3-4 in. long, 
1-2 in. thick) j tubes adnate ; pores rather large, angular, whitish, 
then flesh coloured. Spores almond-shaped, rough, 15 X 10 p. 
On sandy ground. Queensland. (Fig. 50). 
k. Cariosi. Stem externally never reticulated, internally stuffed 
with a spongy pith, at length usually hollow. Tubes at first 
white, then often yellow ; pores minute, rounded. Spores white. 
572. Boletus haedinus. B. St Br. Brisbane Fun. n., 57. 
Sacc. Syll. 4817. 
Pileus convex, thick, tan-coloured, at first rather tomentose ; 
stem thickened about the base, reticulated above, of the same 
colour ; pores pallid. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
Species of uncertain affinity. 
573. Boletus napipes. Muell. Linn. Journ. xii., 161. Sacc. 
Syll. 4830. 
Pileus pulvinate, reddish brown, at length turning blackish ; 
stem obconical ; pores free, lemon-yellow. 
In meadows. Victoria. 
Genus 21. STROBILOMYCES. Berk. Outl. 236. 
Hymenophore even. Tubes separable from the hymenium and 
from each other, broad, equal. Pileus and stem broken up into 
squarrose scales, fleshy, but tough. Spores rather large, typically 
deeply coloured. 
574. Strobiloinyces nigricans. Berk. Book. Journ. 1852, 
p. 139. Sacc. Syll. 4837. 
Small ; pileus convex, expanded, very obtuse, rough in the 
centre with hexagonal warts ; margin flocculosely squamose. 
Spores 12 p long. 
In woods. Queensland. 
575. Strobilomyces pallescens. Cke. ij- Mass. Grev, 
xvm., 5. 
Pileus pulvinate, imbricated with thick, obtuse, conical warts, 
rosy purple, growing pale, veil membranaceous and torn, adhering 
