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crispate; stem short, thick (1 in. long, 1 in. thick), sulcately 
rugose, expanded to a disc at the base, hymenium porose ; pores 
above elongated, irregular, angular, rather tubajform, shortened 
below, and reticulate, dissepiments rather thin and dentate. Spores 
profuse, elliptic, golden brown, 12 x 8 /a. 
On wood. Victoria. (Fig. 67.) 
Genos 35. MERULIUS. Hall. 
Hymenophore formed from the interwoven mucous mycelium ; 
hymenium soft, waxy, continuous, the surface reticulated with 
obtuse folds, incompletely porose, at length gyrose and obsoletely 
dentate. 
907. Merulius corium. Fr. Hym. Eur. 591. Saco. Syll. 
6532. 
ftesupinately effused, soft, rather papery, circumference at 
length free and reflexed, villose beneath, white ; hymenium 
reticulately porose, flesh colour, or pale tan colour. Spores 
elliptical or ovate. 
On trunks and branches. Victoria. Queensland. W. Aus- 
tralia. Tasmania. 
908. Merulius pelliculosus. Cooke Grev. xix., 109. 
Broadly effused, membranaceous, closely adnate, white, hyaline 
when dry, like a thin pellicle ; margin naked, hymenium reticulated 
with shallow angular pores, scarcely visible when dry (about ^ 
m.m. diam.). 
On branches of Acacia. Victoria. 
909. Merulius Baileyi. B. $ Br. Linn. Trans, ii., 62, t. 13, 
/'. 1. Sacc. Syll. 6538. 
Pileus flabelliform, viscid, smooth (5 c.m. broad, 3 1-4 c.m. 
long)'; margin crenate, rugose, inflexed, flesh yellow ; pores 
irregular at the margin, obsoletely radiating, dissepiments obtuse, 
flexuous. 
On trunks. Queensland. (Fig. 63.) 
910. Merulius aureus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 592. Sacc. Syll. 
6542. 
Effused, thin, membranaceous, adherent, golden yellow ; margin 
thin, villose, of the same colour ; hymenium plicately porose, 
gyrose. Spores globose or subglobose, uniguttulate, pale yellow, 
8 ft. diam. 
On wood. Queensland. 
911. Merulius tenuissimus. B. <j- Br. Linn. Trans, n., 62. 
Sacc Syll. 6550. 
Umber brown beneath, and the very thin margin white, folds 
rather reticulate, distant, slightly elevated, flesh white. 
Parasitic on Hymenocluste. Queensland. 
