AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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minute (scarcely visible to the naked eye), irregular, angular, with 
thin dissepiments. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
Substance brown. 
666. Polyporus anebus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1847, 504. 
Sacc. Syll. Vi., 5253. 
Pallid fawn-colour, pileus semi-orbicular, thin, coriaceous, 
delicately pruinose or velvety, slightly zoned (5 c.m. broad, 31-4 
c.m. long) ; margin acute, substance of the same colour; pores 
small, rounded, rather short. 
On wood. Queensland. 
n. Resupinati. Anodermeous ; soft, vesupinate, margin a little 
rejlexed, 
667. Polyporus ascoboloides. Berk. Linn. Journ. xra., 162. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5255. 
Pileus resupinate, orbicular, rather thick, arising from a thick 
coriaceous stratum, scarcely reflexed, tomentose whitish (3|-4 
m.m. broad), liymenium black; pores regular, hexagonal, small. 
On trunks. Australia. 
Genus 24. POMES. Fr. Nova Symb. 31. 
Pileus at first woody, indurated (rarely soft and weeping), 
substance interwoven, floccose, covered with a rigid crust, without 
zones, but at length concentrically sulcate. Perennial fungi 
(commonly stratose), reviving, but growing only by an annual 
stratum. 
a. Mesopodes. Pileus entire, smooth. Stem distinct, vertical, 
simple. 
* Stem smooth, turning black. 
668. Pomes nigripes. Fr. Epic. 435. Sacc. Syll. 5272. 
Between corky and woody ; pileus convex, plane, quite smooth, 
without zones, opaque, ferruginous-brown, not laccate ; margin 
obtuse ; stem rooting, smooth, laccate and shining, black; pores 
minute, equal, ferruginous-brown. 
On trunks. N.S.Wales. 
** Stem fuscous, pruinose or tomentose. 
669. Pomes rudis. Berk. FI. Tasm. t. 182, f. 4. Sacc. Syll. 
5281. 
Stem subcentral (2-6 c.m. long), rooting in the wood, equal, 
brown, covered with a tawny pruinosity, then shining ; pileus 
convex, rather depressed in the centre, orbicular, brown, pruinose 
like the stem, or minutely velvety, rugose (8-12 c.m. diam.) ; 
margin obtuse ; pores brown, subrotund, of medium size, substance 
pallid, soft and spongy. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. New Caledonia. 
