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bay brown ; hymenium concave, pores minute, stratose, bay, 
rhubarb-coloured within. 
On trunks. W. Australia. 
691. Fomes salicinus. Pers. Sacc. Syll. 5429. Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 560. 
Pileus woody, quite hard, undulate, smooth, greater part resupi- 
nate (to 30 c.m. broad) ; margin short, obtuse, spreading, cinna- 
mon, becoming hoary. Pores minute, rounded, ferruginous- 
cinnamon. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
e. iMromTi. Pileus dimidiate , woody , perennial, at first anoder- 
meous, floccose or pruinose, then indurated, and covered with a 
crust formed from the substance itself. Substance fibrous, 
radiating, descending into the crowded, elongated, but not 
stratose pores. 
* Substance pallid. 
692. Fomes liemileucus. B. fr C. Sacc. Syll. 5449. 
B. C. Linn. Journ. x., 312. 
Pileus corky, rather thick, rigid, dimidiate, delicately tomentose, 
white, slightly laccate and rufous behind (8 c.m. broad, 4 c.m. 
long), hymenium white; pores minute, rounded, edge obtuse (J 
m.m. diam.). 
On stems. Queensland. 
693. Fomes exotephrus. Berk. Linn- Journ.xw i., 49. Sacc. 
Syll. 5450. 
Pileus hard, sulcately zoned, at first delicately tomentose,. 
becoming smooth (6 c.m. broad) ; margin sulcate, rather prominent, 
obtuse, lobed ; substance wood-colour ; pores ferruginous, brown,, 
minute. 
On trunks. Queensland. Admiralty Island. 
694. Fomes contrarius, B. $■ C. Sacc. Syll. 5451. 
B. 4 " Curt. Linn. Trans, n., 60, t. 11,/. 2-4. Qrev. xv., p. 21. 
Pileus somewhat zoned, fixed at the vertex, or subimbricate 
(3-5 c.m. broad), brown, at first ocbraceous, then darker, slightly 
concentrically sulcate and depressed, thin, rigid, tomentose, at 
length becoming smooth ; substance thin, wood coloured, fibrous, 
radiate ; tubes equal to the substance ; pores minute, regular, 
rounded( | m.m. diam.) ; hymenium white, at length silvery grey’ 
On trunks. Queensland. 
** Substance tawny or cinnamon. 
695. Fomes tasmanicus. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 254 Sacc 
Syll. 5452. 
Pileus narrow, sulcate, pale brown, tomentose, hymenium and 
substance of the same colour ; pores minute, punctiform (211-212 
p. diam.). 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. 
