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Agyrius inedulatus.
on the old tan covering locale 22 april 1839. Dunkerque. Saxon.
Pileus [solitary] hemispherical, at length expanded and subconvex, yellow-brown,
dusty at the summit (white it is slightly umbonate) and at the edges, where
it is nearly black - blackish-brown, with a white pruinose. more than 1 inch
in diameter; flocculent, and in a shallow larger
Gills cinnamon-brown, pale at the very margin, waved where they join the
margin: lie in a set, broader near the stem, to which they are attached
by a very narrow process. Stipe oval, pale yellowish-brown, darker
at the ends.
Stem 2 inches in height, distinctly striated above, the ribs pale and
scaly with very minute scales; brown, as also internal, hollow.
Odour as of fish.
a solitary specimen was found at 22 April 1839. The absence
of this mycelium was probably accidental.