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The specimen in Kew Herb, from Kalchbrenner is a true Poly- 
porvs, and not as described by Bresadola. It is probably only a 
young state of some known species. 
c. Spongiosa. Pileus at first spongy, soft, soaking up water, 
tomentose , then corky or leathery. Stem short, deformed. 
Pores various, irregular, pruinose, becoming discoloured. 
* Substance brownish. 
597. Polyporus Sch.weini.tzii. Fr. Syst. Myc. i., 351. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 4938. 
Pilens thick, between spongy and corky, strigosely tomentose 
and rough, bay-brown (19 c.m. and more broad); stem thick, 
very short or obsolete, ferruginous ; pores large, variously torn, 
sulphury, then greenish ; spores ovoid, hyaline, 7-8 X 3£ p. 
Substance rhubarb-colour. 
On pine stumps. Queensland. 
598. Polyporus tabulaeformis. Berk. Jlook. Journ. 1845, 
302. Sacc. Syll. vi., 4939.=P. spectabilis, Fr. Nov. Sym. 48. 
Pileus orbicular, thick in the centre, thin at the margin, some- 
what lobed, a little zonefi, rugose, velvety, here and there beset 
with fasciculate hairs (17-18 c.m. broad), ferruginous bay ; sub- 
stance ferruginous, divergently fibrous ; stem central or lateral, 
short, obtuse, effused into the pileus (3-4 c.m. high, 6 c.m. thick 
in the middle) ; pores small, irregular, of the same colour as the 
pileus. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
** Substance whitish. 
599. Polyporus biennis. Bull. Fr. Hym. Fur. 529. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 4914. 
Pileus spongy, then corky-coriaceous, plane or depressed, re- 
pand, without zones, clad at first with a vanishing scurfy tomontum, 
becoming smooth, white, then ferruginous, stem short, thick, fer- 
ruginous, woolly, pores labyrinthiform, unequal, acute, torn and 
toothed, cinereous white, then turning brownish. 
On the ground near trunks. Queensland. 
600. Polyporus rufescens. Fr. Hym. Fur. 529. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 494<i. 
Flesh coloured. Pileus spongy, soft, unequal, hairy (5-12 c.m. 
broad), stem short, deformed ; pores large, sinuous and torn, white, 
then fiesh coloured. 
On grassy ground, about old trunks. Victoria. Queensland. 
W. Australia. Bunyip Creek. 
601. Polyporus proteiporus. Cooke Grev. xn., 15. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 4951. 
Pileus whitish, fleshy, tough, then coriaceous, convexo-plane, de- 
pressed, delicately tomentose and scurfy, at length nearly smooth 
