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what rooting (2^ in. long, 1 in. thick), reddish, velvety above, 
paler below, somewhat reticnlately tomentose ; pores small, round,, 
equal, very short, slightly decurrent, pallid. Spores minute,, 
elliptic, white. 
On the ground. Queensland. (Fig. 53). 
586. Polyporus tumulosus. Cke. Grev. xvn., 55. 
Pileus fleshy (3-4 in. diam.), firm, convex, pallid, clad with 
darker innate scales ; margin at first iucurvod ; flesh white ; stem 
short, thick, equal (1-2 in. x 1 in.), solid, ochraceous ; mycelium 
profuse, white, forming a dense mass at the base ; tubes adnate, or 
a little decurrent, broad ; pores large, unequal, angular. Spores 
12 x 4-5 [i, pale olive. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
587. Polyporus myelodes. Kalch. Grev. iv., 74. Sacc . 
Syll. vi., 487 ( myelodes , Err. Typ.). 
Pileus fleshy, fragile, irregular, somewhat repand, deeply umbili- 
cate, infundibnliform, surface unequal, rugulose, obsoletely villose, 
tan coloured, or becoming pale, brownish ; stem solid, unequal, 
obconical, dilated into the pileus ; pores short, minute, unequal, 
whitish. Flesh white. 
On the ground, at the base of trunks. Queensland, 
b. Lenti. Stem central , fleshy, then tough, indurated, growing on 
wood. Stem of the same colour at. the base, not black. 
* Pileus unpolished, squamose, or villose. 
588. Polyporus lentus. Berk. Outl. 237. Sacc. Syll. vi., 
4884. 
Pileus fleshy, then tough and coriaceous, umbilicate, squamulose, 
without zones, pallid ochraceous (4 c.m. broad); stem short, 
central or excentric, incurved (12-25 rn.m. long, 9 m.m. thick), 
hispid and mealy, of the same colour ; pores decurrent, irregular, 
white. 
On rotten stems, etc. Victoria. 
589. Polyporus brumalis. Fr. llym. Fur. 52G. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 4885. 
Pileus toughly fleshy, then coriaceous, rather umbilicate, with- 
out zones, of the present season villose, sooty brown, of last 
season squamulose, becoming smooth, growing pale (2-12 c.m. 
broad). Stem thin, hairy, squamulose (2-5 c.m. long, 4-9 m.m. 
thick) ; pores oblong and angular, thin, acute, denticulate, white. 
Spores oblong, curved, bignttulate, hyaline, 6x2 p.. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
590. Polyporus cupuliformis. B. tj- C. N.A. Fungi 121. 
Sacc. Syll. 4902. 
Pileus cup-shaped, at length reflexed, rufous, tomentose (2 m.m. 
or more across) ; stem very short (2 m.m.) ; pores small (-J- m.m.), 
of the same colour. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
