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length darker, squamulose (tnfts 30 c.m. and more broad, pilei 
12-15 c.m. diam.) ; stems very short, confluent ; pores short, 
minute, white, then pallid, as well as the stems. Spores 
6-7 p long. 
On wood. Queensland. Lord Howe’s Island. 
621. Polyporus scabriusculus. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvm., 
385. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5026. 
Stem cylindrical (2 in. long), repeatedly branched, branches 
6 in. long ; pilei spathulate, delicately pubescent, rather rough ; 
pores broad (l£ m.m.). 
On trunks. Australia. 
g. Lobati. Pileus fleshy, then tough and rather leathery , more or 
less zoned , fibrous within ; pores adnate ; tufts lateral, rather 
stipitate, much imbricated ; stems more or less connate , or 
springing from a common tuberous base. 
* Substance pallid. 
622. Polyporus anthracopliilus. Cooke Grev. xii., 16. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5043. 
Imbricate and much divided, toughly coriaceous, becoming hard 
(tufts to 15 c.m. broad) ; pilei dimidiate, imbricated, and growing 
together, sinuately lobed, rather tomentose, at length adpressedly 
tomentose, bay-brown, attenuated behind into the whitish, unequal 
stems, slightly zoned near the margin ; pores of medium size 
(j-4 m.m.), unequal, angular, decurrent, white ; dissepiments thin, 
a little dentate or broken. 
On burnt ground. Victoria. Queensland. S.W. Australia. 
** Substance slightly coloured. 
623. Polyporus lsetus. Cooke Grev. xn., 16. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5047. 
Imbricated and much divided, coriaceous, tough, bright 
coloured (orange tawny) ; pilei dimidiate, imbricated, and grown 
together (7-15 c.m. broad), entire, broken up into adpressed, scaly 
zones, orange-red, verging on crimson or purple, at length be- 
coming pale, confluent behind, in an unequal stem ; margin acute ; 
flesh fibrous, orange-red, thin (5 m.m. thick); pores of medium 
size, pallid, edge thin. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
h. Imbricati. Pileus without pellicle, cheesy, at first soft and 
juicy, then dry and fragile, zoneless, pores seceding. Tufts 
sessile, at the base of trees, commonly dimidiate when growing 
horizontal, everywhere expanding from the centre, at first 
arising from an amorphous tubercle. 
624. Polyporus sulfureus. Bull. Fr. TLym. Fur. 542. Sver. 
Svamp. t. 88. Sacc Syll. vi., 5050. 
Ciespitose and much divided, of a juicy, cheesy consistence, 
soon growing pale (30-66 c.m. broad) ; pilei very broad, imbricated, 
