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narrowly zoned and sulcate ; pores small, short ; substance 
ocliraceous. 
On trunks. N.S. Wales. 
c. Mkrismoidbi. Pilei very numerous , developed from a common 
trunk or tubercle , persistently tough ; substance floccose, rather 
soft, J omentum-lilce. Pores adnate. 
675 . Tomes senex. Nees; Mont. Syll. 160. Sacc. Syll. 
5335. 
Large. Pileus nearly plane, corky, chestnut brown, becoming 
smooth (6 to 20 in. across); margin acute, concentrically rugose, 
the ridges tuberculose ; pores ferruginous, minute, longer than sub- 
stance of the pileus. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
d. Pomentarii. Pileus floccose, like amadou, at first without juice, 
not fleshy or spongy, covered with a hard horny crust ; pores at 
length stralose. 
* Substance white or whitish. 
676 . Tomes scansilis. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvi., 53. Sacc. 
Syll. 5342. 
Even ; pileus pulvinate, brown, repeatedly deeply sulcate and 
ribbed, coffee colour ; cuticle thin, rigid ; substance thick, white, 
fibrous, descending in brown punctiform pores. 
On trunks. Queensland. Tahiti. 
** Substance pallid, wood coloured. 
677 . Tomes marginatus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 561. Sacc. Syll. 
5352. 
Pileus between corky and woody, rather flattened, incrusted, 
concentrically sulcate, smooth, but greyish pruinose (10 c.m. 
broad), variecoloured, zonate to the pallid margin, tan coloured 
within ; pores round, straw-coloured, mouth white, rufescent when 
bruised. 
On trunks. Victoria. N.S. Wales. 
678 . Tomes dochmius. B. O' Br. Ijinn. Journ. xiv., 50. 
Sacc. Syll. 5359. 
Pileus dimidiate, oblique, hard, becoming smooth, zoned, banded, 
l’adiately rugose and lineate (9-10 c.m. broad, 6 c.m. long) ; 
margin tomentose ; substance pallid ; hymenium ochraceous 
white ; pores punctiform. 
On dead wood. Queensland. 
679 . Tomes concavus. Cooke Grev. xix, 44. 
Pileus very hard, convexo-flattened, seuii-orbicular, deeply 
decurrent and effused behind, becoming nearly black, concentrically 
sulcate, and somewhat rugose or tuberculate (4-6 in. diam.), com- 
paratively thin (|-J inch), covered with a hard crust. Substance 
