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very thin and floccose, together with the elongated, stratose tubes, 
wood-coloured, pores very minute, round, regular, punctiform, 
scarcely visible. Hymenium concave, pale, ochraceous ; margin 
thin, incurved, flexuous, sterile. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
* # * Substance tawny or bay-brown. 
680. Fomes concliatus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 560. Sacc. Syll. 
5385. 
Pileus corky, tindery, thin, effused, rather shell-shaped, reflexed, 
concentrically sulcate, tomentose, bay-brown (2-5 c.m. or more) ; 
margin acute ; hymenium concave ; pores short, small ; trama 
thin, of the same colour. 
On trunks. Queensland. Victoria. 
** Substance umber or purple brown. 
681. Fomes australis. Fr. Hym. Fur. 536. Sacc. Syll. 
5394. 
Pileus very hard, convexo-plane, dimidiate, sessile, undulate, 
tuberculose, smooth, incrusted, opaque, somewhat bay brown (very 
variable in size, sometimes very large), sterile, margin smooth, 
pores very long, minute, eonfluently stratose, umber, mouth at first 
whitish. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. Tasmania. 
N. Zealand. New Guinea. Fig. 56. 
var. arculatum. Bres. 
Margin thicker and tubes shorter. Spores 6-7 x 4 p.. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
682. Fomes cliilensis. Fr. Nova Symb. 47. Sacc. Syll. 
5396. 
Pileus corky, hoof-shaped, dilated, with elevated ridges, con- 
centrically tuberculose, and undulated (2 c.m. and more broad), 
brick red, becoming pale, substance soft, loosely floccose, umber, 
pores elongated, continuous, pallid, umber. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
683. Fomes applanatus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 587. Sacc. Syll. 
5397. 
Pileus flattened, tuberculose, obsoletely zoned, pulverulent or 
smooth, cinnamon, becoming hoary, cuticle crustaceous, rigid, at 
length fragile, very soft within, and loosely floccose (35 c.m. 
broad), margin swollen, white, then cinnamon; pores small, rather 
ferruginous; mouth whitish, brownish when bruised. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. 
684. Fomes orbiformis. Fries. Sacc. Syll. 5400. Fr. Epic. 
463. 
Pileus hard, convex, orbicular, obliquely sessile, adnate behind, 
concentrically sulcate, crustaceous laccate, dark brown, pruinose with 
grey ; pores very long, minute, becoming brownish. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
