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of the same colour (4 c.m. broad, 2| c.m. long) ; hymenium fer- 
ruginous ; pores small, angular, dissepiments thin, dentate (5 m.m. 
diam.). 
On branches. Queensland. 
** Substance whitish. 
650. Polyporus pelliculosus. Berk. Hook. Journ. vi., 575. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5180. 
Dark red, then brown, juicy, densely gregarious, shell-shaped (4-5 
c.m. diam.), clad at first with dense strigose hairs, when denuded 
radiately striate ; margin thin, incurved ; hymenium paler ; pores 
rather angular m.m.) or confluent ; dissepiments thin, soon 
torn. 
On wood. Queensland. Tasmania. 
651. Polyporus spiculifer. Cooke Grev. xv., 20. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5181. 
Pileus fleshy, soft and watery, rather pulvinate (2^-5 c.m. and 
more diam.), sooty brown, turning black, oven, rugulose when dry, 
everywhere beset with scattered, erect, obtuse spicules ; flesh 
pallid, tubes elongated (5-7 m.m. long) ; pores minute, nearly 
equal, dissepiments thin. 
On trunks. Victoria. (Pig. 55). 
652. Polyporus borealis. Wahl. Fr. Hi/m. Fur. 552. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5187. 
White, then yellowish; pileus spongy, then corky, compact, 
rather pulvinate, hairy, internally parallelly fibrous (4-6 c.m. 
broad); margin spreading; pores adnate, unequal, sinuous, and 
flexuous, torn, white. Spores 4t x 3 p. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
653. Polyporus substuppeus. B. ty Cooke Linn, aourn. xv., 
881. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5194. 
Pileus dimidiate, decurrent behind, rugose, short, invested with 
tow-like flocci (12 m.m. long, 4 c.m. or more broad) ; when dry, 
pallid ochraceous, pores rather hexagonal, edge thin (^ m.m. 
broad, but variable). 
On wood. Queensland. 
1. Subbrosi. Pileus at the first rather fleshy, juicy, then indurated, 
covered by a thin crust ; pores thin, at length somewhat seceding. 
* Substance white. 
654. Polyporus betulinus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 555. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5207. 
Pileus fleshy, then corky, hoof-shaped, obtuse, without zones, 
smooth, vertex obliquely umbonate, pellicle thin, evanescent (10 
c.m. or more across) ; pores short, minute, unequal, at length 
parting away. Spores small hyaline. 
On beech. Queensland. 
