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# Substance white. 
759. Folystictus biformis. Fr. Epicr. 475. Sacc. Syll. v r i., 
5683. 
Imbricated ; pileus effused, reflexed, tow-like, coriaceous, soft, 
villous tomentose, white, not zoned, at first even, then concen- 
trically sulcate ; margin entire, acute (5-10 c.in. broad, 2~-5 c.m. 
long) ; pores rather large, acute, pallid wood-colour, at length 
torn and toothed (sometimes violet-brown). 
On trunks. Victoria. 
760. Folystictus liololeucus. Kalch. Hedw. xv., 114. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5689. 
Wholly white; pileus floccosely corky, dimidiate, sessile, convex, 
plane beneath, concentrically sulcate, soft to the touch, floccose, 
then smooth ; margin acute, white (10-14 c.m. long, 3-4 c.m. 
thick), flesh tinder-like, white; pores long, of medium size, 
rounded, entire, white, then yellowish. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
761. Polystictus proteiformis. Cooke Grev. x iv., 81. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5693.=Polyporus proteus, Kalch. Grev. x., 5693. 
Pilei effused and reflexed, tow-like, coriaceous, white within, 
imbricate and grown together, or entire and orbicular, adnnte at 
the middle, otherwise free, at length confluent in a plane stratum, 
slightly concentrically sulcate ; margin acute, adpressedly pubes- 
cent, white, becoming smooth with age, and gilvous behind (single 
pilei 2^-5 c.m. broad, then confluent, 10-13 c.m. long) ; pores 
minute, rounded, obtuse, wood-colour, then becoming brownish or 
gilvous. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
* # Substance pallid. 
762. Folystictus seriatus. Kalch. Grev. x., 102. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5696. 
Tow-like, substance pallid wood-colour, pilei semiorbicular, 
rigid, plane on both sides, and mostly seriately connate, concen- 
trically sulcate, radiately rugose or nodulose, powdery velvety, 
brick-red or gilvous, becoming brownish (2^-4 c.m. long, 2-4 m.m. 
thick) ; margin rather obtuse ; pores minute, rounded, isabelline, 
verging on flesh-colour. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
763. Polystictus cristatus. Cooke Grev. x., 132 (Trametes). 
Sacc. Syll. VI., 5700. 
Broadly effused, with the margins broadly reflexed ; pilei thin, 
bright ochre, flexible, crested with fimbriate, nearly erect hairs ; 
margin acute (3-5 c.m. deep, 6-10 c.m. long); pores angular, 
short (§ m.m. diam.), dissepiments more or less toothed, of the 
same colour. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
