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987. Thelephora exsculpta. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvi., 168. 
Sacc. Syll. 7192. 
Orbicular, grey, tinged with pink, wholly resupinate, smooth in 
the centre, about the margin dentately radiate, somewhat veined, 
pulverulent, here and there lacunose, dark purple beneath (6 c.m. 
broad). 
On bark, Victoria. 
Genus 50. CLADODERRIS. Pers. 
Pileus between leathery and woody ; hymenium woody, marked 
with radiating branched ribs, persistent, at length rough with warts. 
988. Cladoderris australis. Kalch. in Thum. Symb. Aust. 
a., No. 89. Sacc. Syll. 7210. 
Pileus subexcentric, infundibuliform, oblique ; margin broadly 
reflexed, fimbriately lobed, unequal, fibrously rugose, clad with a 
hoary tomentum, at length naked and lurid (5-7 c.m. diam.) ; stem 
woody, tomentose, villose, lurid grey (2^ c.m. long, 6-8 m.m. 
thick) ; hymenium tan-colour, costate ; ribs swollen, obtuse, 
rather dichotomously branched, not tuberculose. 
On trunks. N. S. Wales. 
989. Cladoderris australica. Berk, in Ilerb. Sacc. Syll. 
7211. 
Infundibuliform, oblique, flabollate or semi-orbicular (7-15 c.m. 
long) ; margin spreading, thin, entire, or sinuately fimbriate, 
radiately rugose, obscurely zoned, tomentose, becoming smooth, 
ferruginous-bay ; stem excentric or lateral, short, discoid, of the 
same colour (1 c.m. long, 6-10 m.m. thick); hymenium tan-colour, 
radiately sulcate, tuberculose ; spores ovate, 8 X 5 p. 
On wood. N.S. Wales. (Fig. 76). 
990. Cladoderris dendritica. Pers. Freyc. Voy. t. 1,/. 4. 
Sacc. Syll. 7215. 
Coriaceous, soft, gilvous ; pileus reniform, entire ; margin 
scarcely denticulate (5-15 c.m. broad) ; stem lateral, firm; 
hymenium fibrillose, deliquescent. 
On dead wood. Victoria. N.S. Wales. Queensland. New 
Guinea. 
991. Cladoderris spongiosa. Fr. Fun. Nai. 20. Sacc. Syll. 
7207. 
Pileus broadly infundibuliform, spongy from a very dense, thick, 
soft, interwoven tomentum, elastic, zoneless, tan-colour ; margin 
entire; stem central, very short, woody, tomentose externally; 
hymenium pallid; ribs swollen, fan-shaped, branched, at length 
rough with granules. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
Genus 51. STEREUM. Pers. 
Hymenium definite, inferior, coriaceous, intermediate stratum 
fibrillose, distinct from the inodermeous pileus, even, smooth, per- 
sisting, unchanged ; spores continuous, typically hyaline. 
