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670. Pomes pullatus. Berk. Grev. xv., 21. Sacc.Syll. 5282. 
Pileus orbicular, rugose, sulcately zoned, at first glaucous,. 
delicately velvety, at length brown (9 can. diara.) ; substance 
soft, umber; hymenium plane, black; pores small, rather 
hexagonal (350 p diam.) ; stem elongated, irregular, pulverulent 
(13c.m. long, 12 man. thick). 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. 
671. Fomes rugosus. Nees Acta Nat. Cur. xiii., t. 7. Sacc „ 
Syll. 5283. 
Pileus coriaceous, rigid, convex, then depressed, smooth, 
opaque, concentrically sulcate, and radiately corrugate, bay-brown, 
turning black ; substance cinnamon ; stem unequal, torulose, root- 
ing, crustate, velvety pruinose; pores small, much crowded, dark 
brown, at first covered with a greyish brown floccose pruinosity. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
b. Pi.uuroi'odes. Pileus horizontal , not circinate, smooth , with a 
varnished crust ; stem simple, ascending, corticate, lateral, or 
ex centric. 
* Stem laccate. 
672. Fomes amboinensis. tries Epic. 442. Sacc. Syll . 
5300. 
Pileus between corky and woody, somewhat ear-shaped (form 
and size variable), rugose, tuberculate, smooth ; stem lateral, very 
long, torulose, smooth, laccate, and shining, cinereous, becoming 
black; pores determinate, small, white, then brownish. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
var. gibbosus. Fries Ep. 443. = Polyporus gibbosus. Nees 
Nova Acta Cur. xni., t. 5. Sacc. Syll. 5303. 
Pileus between corky and woody, somewhat kidney-shaped, 
rugose, tuberculate ; stem lateral, stout, torulose, smooth, opaque, 
reddish brown ; pores determinate, minute, reddish brown. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
673. Fomes lucidus. Fr. Ilyin. Fur. 537. Sacc. Syll. 
5305. 
Pileus between corky and woody (5-15 c.m. broad), flabelliform, 
sulcately rugose, laccate and shining, as well as the lateral equal 
stem (15-25 c.m. long, or nearly obsolete), yellowish, then reddish 
chestnut brown ; pores determinate, long, minute, white, then 
cinnamon. 
At the base of stumps. Queensland. Tasmania. Fiji. 
** Stem pruinose or velvety. 
674. Fomes superpositus. Berk. Linn. Journ. xm., 161. 
Sacc. Syll. 5315. 
Pileus shell-shaped (3^-4 c.m. broad), imbricate, rising from a 
common, lateral, cylindrical stem (12 c.m. long), pallid, pruinose, 
