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(23 c.m. broad, 11 c.m. long) ; hymenium vinous, pores of medium 
size, flexuous. 
On dead wood. Australia. 
793. Polystictus vinosus. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist., Vol. ix., 
195. Sacc. Syll. VI., 5838. 
Pileus reniform, tbin, zoned, delicately velvety, becoming smooth,, 
dark vinous (5 c.m. broad, 2J c.m. long) ; hymenium of the same 
colour, pores small, hexagonal. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
c. Ldtesoentes. 
* Substance tawny ferruginous. 
794. Polystictus occidentalis. Fr. Epic. 491. (Trametes) 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5843. 
Pileus between corky and coriaceous, plane, effused and re- 
flexed, tomentose, concentrically sulcate, of one colour, gilvous, 
growing pale, margin acute (8 c.m. broad or more) ; pores small, 
rather rounded, quite obtuse, gilvous yellow. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. S. Australia. 
795. Polystictus rigens. Sacc. Syll. 5844.=Trametes rigida, 
B. M. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1849. 
Pilei effused, shortly reflexed, often confluent, coriaceous, rigid, 
more or less concentrically sulcate, rugose, velvety, pale tawny 
wood colour (4-8 c.m. or confluent), substance of the same colour; 
pores small, roundish, or shortly flexuous, pallid wood colour, 
edge obtuse. 
On trunks. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
796. Polystictus byrsinus. Mont. Cuba 391, t. 15,/. 3. Sacc „ 
Syll. 5846. 
Broad, of one colour. Pileus coriaceous, soft, thin, flaccid, 
elastic, at first wholly resupinate, then effused behind, reflexed, 
semiorbicular, plane, tomentose, concentrically sulcate ; margin 
spreading, acute, substance floccose, pores round, equal, very short, 
obtuse, ferruginous tawny. 
On bark. Queensland. 
Probably only a variety of P. occidentalis. 
797. Polystictus tephroleucus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1852, 
185. Sacc. Syll. vi., 5847. 
Pileus dimidiate, rigid, coriaceous, white, zoned, strigosely 
velvety (7-8 c.m. broad, 5 c.m. long), substance white; pores of 
medium size, cinereous, dissepiments rigid, sometimes elongated, 
edge acute. 
On dead wood. Victoria. 
** Substance yellow or golden. 
798. Polystictus citreus. Berk. Linn. Journ. xm., 162, 
Sacc. Syll. vi., 5866. 
Pileus narrowly spathulate, or split and flabellate, lemon yellow, 
a little zoned, lineate (18-20 in.m. long, 6-7 in.m. broad), margin 
