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d. Prolificantes. Pileus coriaceous, thin, more or less proliferous, 
much divided, more or less protracted into an indefinite ( some- 
times deficient ) stem. 
748. Polystictus laceratus. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, 392. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5639. 
Effused and reflexed, thin ; pileus zoned, smooth, rugose, striate, 
wood- colour (5 c.m. long, 18 m.m. broad); pores rather large, 
angular, soon torn, tawny, dissepiments thin, toothed. 
On branches. Queensland. N.S.Wales. N. Guinea. 
749. Polystictus dispar. Kalch. Austr. Fungi No. 82. 
Pilei imbricated, confluent, base wedge-shaped, sessile, flabellate, 
lobed, convexo-plane, radiately fibrous-striate, and somewhat silky, 
slightly zoned to the margin, tan-coloured ; pores about the margin 
superficial, minute, almost sterile, towards the base protracted into 
lamellose teeth, yellowish white. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
750. Polystictus elongatus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1842, 149. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5640. 
Pileus wedge-shaped, rounded in front and lobed, attenuated 
behind, thin, coriaceous, tomentose, becoming smooth, pale ochre 
(5-6 c.m. long), zones darker, lineate, striate ; hymenium concave, 
rather rufescent ; pores minute, dissepiments thin, torn ; spores 
white. 
On dead leaves. Victoria. Queensland. 
var. Hodgkinsoniae. Kalch. Grev. t. 145, /. 24. 
Pileus rigid, spatlmlate, densely streaked with elevated radiating 
stria;, at first silky, then minutely warted, margin acute ; stem 
short, disciform ; pores minute, angular, toothed and torn, white, 
then yellowish. 
On dead wood. Queensland. N.S.Wales. 
751. Polystictus Beckleri. Berk. Linn. Journ. xiu., 162. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5125. =P. scobinaceus. Berk, in Herb. 
Thin, dimidiate, whitish or ochraceous, effused behind, very 
minutely scabrous, margin thin, a little inflexed (2 c.m. diam.) ; 
pores small, angular (120 p. diam.). 
On dead wood. N.S.Wales. New Guinea. 
752. Polystictus ornithorhynchi. Kalch. Grev. 1. 145, f. 23. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5642. 
Pilei subcmspitose, thin, coriaceous, obovate, cuneate, without 
zones, villose, tomentose, rusty umber, attenuated into a short or 
obsolete stem of the same colour (2^ c.m. broad) ; pores decurrent, 
short, rounded, umber, substance cinnamon. 
On trunks. N.S.Wales. 
753. Polystictus multilobus. Kalch. Grev. x., 96. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5644. 
Pileus coriaceous, thin and rigid, somewhat reniform, narrowed 
.into a lateral very short stem, rather rugulose, pubescent, then 
