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turning blackish, stem short (3 lines), cylindrical, discoid at the 
base, incurved, encrusted, everywhere black (2 lines thick), pores 
small, round, obtuse, with the flesh snowy white. 
On ? N.S. Wales. 
607. Polyporus infernalis. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1843, 637. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 4965. 
Pileus flabelliform, entire or rather lobed, depressed behind, thin, 
acute, at length corky, coriaceous, quite smooth, even, striately 
rugulose except at the base, blackish liver coloured (8-9 c.m. 
broad), stem short, lateral, black, thickened upwards, punctate, 
pulverulent (1-2^ c.m. long, 1 c.m. thick), hymenium brownish ; 
pores minute, round, very short ; margin sterile. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
608. Polyporus varius. Fr. Ilyin. Fur. 535. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 4968. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, extenuated, soon becoming woody, smooth, 
rather virgate, of variable form, depressed at the disc or behind 
(lj-10 c.m. broad), stem excentric and lateral, even, smooth, 
downwards gradually cinereous, then black ( 24 . c.m. long), pores 
decurrent, minute, short, round, unequal, whitish, then cinnamon. 
On trunks. Queensland. W. Australia. Tasmania. 
609. Polyporus elegans. Fr. Hym. Fur. 535. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 4971. 
Pileus equally fleshy, soon indurated, and becoming woody, 
flattened, even, smooth, of one colour (5-12 c.m. broad), "stem ex- 
centric or lateral, even, smooth, pallid, base abruptly black, rooting; 
pores plane, minute, rather round, yellowish white, then pallid. 
On trunks. Queensland. Tasmania. 
var. nummularius. Bull. t. 124. 
Smaller, thinner, rather regular (scarcely 2i c.m. broad) ; stem 
equal, excentric. 
On trunks. N.S. Wales. 
610. Polyporus glabratus. Kalch. Hedw. xv., 114. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 4974, 
Pileus excentric, fleshy, flattened, even, smooth, of one colour, 
dark brown (2|-5 c.m. broad) ; stem solid, tapering, even, smooth, 
becoming brown (3-5 c.m. long, 6-8 m.m. thick) ; pores minute, 
round, white, then yellowish. Flesh white. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
611. Polyporus Guilfoylei. B. 8f Br. Linn. Trans, n., 58. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 4976. 
Pileus spatluilate, lateral, delicately pulverulent (18-40 m.m. 
broad, 18-35 m.m. long); stem produced from the pileus, black, 
cartilaginous ; hymenium descending into the stem, pallid. Pores 
punctiform, 200 fi broad. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
