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c.m. broad) ; pores minute, rounded, acute and torn (when old), 
white, then pallid (with a tinge of yellow). 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. Tasmania. 
Very variable in colour. 
775. Polystictus illotus. Kalch. Grev. x., 102. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5755. 
Pileus between coriaceous and membranaceous, flaccid, softly 
velvety and tomentose, concentrically sulcate, dingy grey, turning 
brownish ; pores minute, angular ; dissepiments thin, at length in 
some places toothed and torn, dirty white. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
776. Polystictus obstinatus. Cooke Grev. xn., 17. (Trametes) 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5758. 
Pileus coriaceous, woody, becoming hard, thin, convexo-plane, or 
depressed, pallid, rather cinereous, velvety, variegated with narrow 
zones, which become naked (5-8 c.m. broad, 2-3 m.m. thick); 
margin acute, entire ; pores round, at length elongated behind 
(| m.m. diarn.), toothed, wood colour, often oblique. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
** Hirsuti. 
777. Polystictus hirsutus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 567. Sacc. Syll. 
vi,, 5760. 
Pilens between corky and coriaceous, convexo-plane, hirsute, with 
rigid hairs of one colour, but zoned with concentric furrows, whitish, 
then tawny (5-6 c.m. long, 3-4 c.m. broad) ; pores rounded, obtuse, 
whitish, becoming tawny. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
778. Polystictus velutinus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 568. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5763. 
Pileus between corky and coriaceous, plane on both sides, velvety, 
soft, slightly zoned, white, at length yellowish ; margin extenuated, 
acute (5 c.m. broad) ; pores rounded, minute, thin, white. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. 
779. Polystictus gausapatus. Kalch. Grev. x., 102. Sacc. 
Syll. Vi., 5770. 
Pileus between fleshy and coriaceous, rigid, dimidiate, sessile, 
shell-shaped, zoned, strigose and very rough to the touch, fawn 
colour, then brownish (7-12 c.m. broad, 2 c.m. thick at the base); 
pores of medium size ; rounded, obtuse, white, then grey or 
rufescent ; substance white. 
On trunks. N.S. Wales. 
780. Polystictus gliriuus. Kalch. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5773.= 
Polystictus murinus. Kalch. Grev. iv., 72. 
Pileus semi-orbicular or somewhat reniform, shell-shaped, pro- 
tracted at the vertex into a spurious stem, delicately tomentose- 
villose, mouse-coloured or rather olivaceous, zoned ; zones becom- 
