AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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•(2 in. long, in. thick), tubes elongated, shortened at the stem 
and the margin ; pores angular, rather large. Spores subglobose, 
even, bright brown, 8 x 5-6 y. 
On the ground. Queensland, 
581. Strobilomyces ananaeceps. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 4888. 
=Boletus anana?ceps. Berk. Austr. Fungi , No. 61. 
Pileus convex, broken up into flat, thick, broad, floccosely- 
squamose warts. Spores 29 y long. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. 
Genus 22. FISTULINA. Bull. 
Rather fleshy. Hymeninm inferior, at first verrucose, then com- 
posed of cylindrical, parallel tubes, free from each other, and 
distinct. 
582. Fistulina hepatica. Fr. Hym. Eur. 522. Sacc. Syll. 
4849. 
Fleshy and juicy, not rooting ; pileus entire, liver colour ; tubes 
at first pallid ; spores ovate-globose, rather unequal sided, 
uniguttulate, pale, rosy-yellow, 5-6 X 3-4 y. 
On trunks. Edible. W. Australia. 
Genus 23. POLYPORUS. Fries. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, then indurated (rarely cheesy, floccose, 
fragile), externally without furrows or zones, but substance radiat- 
ing, fibrous within, aud often zoned. Pores never stratose. 
a. Ovini. Stem central, fleshy-terrestrial. 
* Pileus unpolished, squamose or Jloccose. 
■583. Polyporus ovinus. Schceff. Fr. Hym. Eur. 523. Sver. 
Svam. t. 8. Sacc. Syll. 4858. 
Pileus fleshy, fragile, variable in form, unpolished, soon broken 
into scales, whitish (6-8 c.m. broad) ; stem short, unequal, white 
{2|-3 c.m. long) ; pores minute, rounded, equal, white, then 
lemon yellow. 
In woods. Victoria. 
•584. Polyporus pes-caprse. Pers. Champ. Com. t. 5. Fr. 
Hym. Eur. 524. Sacc. Syll. 4862. 
Subcasspitose ; pileus fleshy, fragile, often dimidiate, cracked 
into scales, bay-brown, at length dark-brown ; stem deformed, 
ventricosc, and, as well as the broad pores, yellowish white. 
In pine woods. Victoria. 
•585. Polyporus Hartmanni. Cke. in Grev. xn., 14. Sacc. 
Syll. 4866. 
Pileus fleshy, rather fragile, sometimes dimidiate, finely velvety 
(3 in. diam.), reddish brown ; margin paler, plane or broadly 
umbonate, disc thick ; stem ventricose, thick, now and then some- 
