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Agaricus Phaeocyanus Patell.
Hedge facing the South, on the hill, road side behind Rought
20 April 1889.
Aggregated. Pileus at first campanulate, afterwards expanded,
border at the edges and partially reflexed; embovate, margin
incurred, subentute, watery brown, dark brown or black at the margin;
pale and somewhat shining when dry. 1-3 inches in diameter;
surface waved with a few large circular dwellings.
Gills, semicorticite, attached by a minute claw to the stem. 4 in
a set; often waved and lying on one another, of a very pale watery
shock colour, brown when dry.
Stem thick, 1-3 inches, long, annulated (whorls owing to the growth
against the perpendicular face of a hedge) often 2 together,
stratified, longitudinally fibrous; at length splitting and bearing
several laminæ on its surface; hollow within and of a satiny
white colour, the interior of the stem is fantrails filled with loose fibres.
Husk white, rather snow white, very thin.
Odour of A. campestris but fainter and more disagreeable.