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725. Polystictus luteonitidus. Berk . Hook. Journ. 1856 ,175. 
Linn. Trans, i., 400, t. 46, J. 7-8. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5538. 
Pileus rugose, yellow, silky, irregularly lohed, thickly zoned, 
at first rather velvety (5 c.m. broad) ; stem deformed, with a 
spongy coating (5 c.m. long, 8-12 m.m. thick) ; pores puncti- 
form, olive yellow. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
726. Polystictus perennis. Linn. Fr. Hyni. Eur. 531. 
Sacc. Syll. 5543. 
Pileus coriaceous, tough, plane, then infundibuliform, velvety, 
becoming smooth, zoned, cinnamon, then bay-brown (3-6 c.m. 
broad) ; stem rather firm, thickened downwards, velvety (2| c.m. 
long) ; pores small, angular, acute, at first with a whitish bloom, 
then naked and torn. Spores ovoid, hyaline (4-5 x2£ /x). 
On the ground. Queensland. 
727. Polystictus cinnamomeus. Jacq. Collect, i., 116, t. 
11. Bres. Trid. t. 99. Sacc. Syll. 5542. 
Wholly, both without and within, bright cinnamon, hymenium 
paler; stem velvety; pileus plane, depressed or rather ini undibuli- 
form, zoned, margin sometimes fimbriate ; hymenium sterile about 
the margin ; pores rather large, angular (pentagonal or hexa- 
gonal). Spores ellipsoid, 6-7 x4-5 fx, yellowish. 
In woods, amongst moss. Australia. 
728. Polystictus oblectans. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1845, 51. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5545. 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, depressed, incised, repand, zoned about 
the centre, strigosely striate, shining, bright cinnamon (3|-4 c.m. 
broad) ; stem central, velvety, reddish-brown (2j c.m. high, 2-4 
m.m. thick) ; pores small, dentate, cinnamon. 
On sandy soil. Victoria. Queensland. W. Australia. Tas- 
mania. 
729. Polystictus bulbipes. Fr. PL Preiss. 135. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5546.=P. cladonia. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1845, 51. P. 
perdurans. Kalch. Crev. ix., p, 1. 
Cinnamon ; pileus between coriaceous and membranaceous, 
flaccid, regular, fibrously radiate, of one colour (21-5 c.m. broad) ; 
disc umhilicate ; margin reflexed dentate ; stem regular, 
cylindrical, velvety, bulbous (21 c.m. long) ; pores crowded, thin, 
entire, at first tawny, then cinnamon, not at first pruinate. 
On the ground. Victoria. W. Australia. Tasmania. 
730. Polystictus parvulus. Klot. Linn. 1833, 483. Sacc. 
Syll. 5548. 
Pileus between coriaceous and membranaceous, deeply and 
acutely umbilicate, obsoletely silky, zoned, bay-brown (8-16 m.m. 
diam.) ; margin reflexed and torn ; stem thin (1-2| c.m. long), 
