AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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{5-10 c.m. broad), margin entire or somewhat lobed, incurved ; 
stem short, of the same colour (12-13 m m. thick, 2£ c.m. long), 
flesh pallid ; pores angular, irregular, confluent, decurrent (^-2 m.m. 
diam.), elongated (to 5 m.m.), pale umber, dissepiments thin, torn 
at the edge. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
602. Folyporus hystriculus. Cooke Grev. xv., 16. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 4952. 
Pileus tough, strigosely hispid, dark brown (4-5 c.m. diam.), 
•discoid, convex ; stem thick, abbreviated, central, hymenium pallid, 
tubes elongated, pores rather large, angular, decurrent, dissepi- 
ments thin, torn or toothed ; substance white. 
About roots. Victoria. 
d. Mklanopodes. Stem central or lateral, turning black wholly 
or at the base. Pileus fleshy, then tough and indurated. 
* Pileus squarnose or Jloccose. 
603. Folyporus squamosus. Ends. Fr. Syst. Myc. i., 343. 
Sacc. f>yll. vi., 4953. 
Pileus fleshy and tough, fan-shaped, flattened, ochraceous, 
variegated with broad, adpressed, spot-like, darker centrifugal 
scales (to 50 c.m. broad), stem excentric and lateral, stout, reticu- 
lated at the apex, blackened at the base; pores thin, variable, at 
first small, then broad, angular and torn, pallid. Spores ovoid, 
hyaline, 12x5 y. 
On trunks. Queensland. Fingiringi. 
604. Folyporus melanopus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 534. Sacc. 
Syll. 4958. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, plane, then infutidibuliform, white, then 
yellowish brown, at first delicately flocculose (5-8 c.m. broad), 
stem excentric, rather velvety, incurved, thickened downwards, 
black, pores decurrent, short, minute, obtuse, unequal, white. 
On the ground and branches. Victoria. Queensland. 
** Pileus becoming smooth. 
605. Folyporus picipes. Fr. Hym. Eur. 534. Sacc. Syll. vi., 
4966. 
Pileus fleshy, coriaceous, then rigid, tough, even, smooth, de- 
pressed at the disc and behind (10 c.m. diam.), stem excentric and 
lateral, equal, firm (2-3 c.m. long), at first velvety, then naked, 
punctate, black up to the decurrent pores, which are rounded, small, 
white, then yellowish. 
On trunks. Queensland. Victoria. Fingiringi. Gembrook 
Range. 
606. Polyporus Strangeri. Kalcli. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales. 
Pileus suberous-coriaceous (1-1| in.), variable in form, kidney 
shaped, convex, rather umbilicate, not zoned, unpolished, umber, 
