AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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|| Abietini. 
787. Polystictus stereoides. Fr. Hym. Eur. 569. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5808. 
Pileus coriaceous, thin, rigid, eftused and reflexed, pubescent, 
then smooth, grey-brown, zones of the same colour (1-1 j c.m. long, 
1-2| c.m. broad), pores short, rather large, obtuse, deformed, 
white. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. 
b. Scortki. 
* Substance pallid. 
788. Polystictus scorteus. Fries Nova Symb.p.89. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5811. 
Pileus coriaceous, flattened on both sides, concentrically sulcate 
and zoned, villose scrupose, verdigris-grey (3 c.m. and more broad), 
substance very thin, wood-colour or tan colour ; pores of medium 
size, rather rounded, angular, obtuse, pale cinnamon yellow. 
On trunks. N.S.Wales. 
789. Polystictus peradenise. Berk. § Br. Linn. Journ. xiv., 
51. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5820 — P. chrysoleucus, Kalch. Grev. 
iv., 72. 
Pileus dimidiate, decurrent at the base, laterally confluent, 
somewhat zoned, silky, membranaceous, pubescent, olive, longi- 
tudinally rugose (2i c.m. broad, 18 m.m. long), margin paler; 
hymenium pale olive, or a little brick red, pores of medium size, 
shallow, dissepiments rigid, acute margin sterile. 
On dead wood. Queensland. 
790. Polystictus vernicifluus. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 254. 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5827. 
Pileus dimidiate, rather flabelliform, thin, varnished and polished, 
rufous (25 m.m. broad, 18 m.m. long), hymenium pallid; pores 
minute, irregular (170 /adiam.). 
On rotten wood. Queensland. Tasmania. 
791. Polystictus Persoonii. Fries Sacc. Syll. vi., 5832 
=Dasdalea sangninea, Klolsch. Linn, vin., 481. 
Pileus coriaceous, flattened, rugulose, obsoleteiy zoned, smooth, 
dark blood-red, growing pale (margin often whitish), (7 c.m. broad, 
5 c.m. long, often confluent), hymenium at first porose, then 
(especially behind) narrowly labyrinthiform ; pallid cinnamon, or 
wood colour. 
On dead wood. Victoria. Queensland. New Guinea. 
** Substance flesh coloured. 
792. Polystictus cupreo-roseus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1856, 
233. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5836. 
Pileus thin, rather convex, coriaceous, copper coloured, silky, 
shining, radiately rugose, and lineate, thickly zoned, margin acute 
