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Agaricus
On the dead bark, near the ground, of an old stump
of a crab tree, Dan Harme. 6th Oct 1839
Clustered. Pileus hemispherical, at length extended and
even recurved, uneven, minutely scaly. reddish-brown-yellow.
Gills adnate with a sulc. yellowish-brown. Stem stuffed.
Spores yellowish
Flesh white, longitudinally scaly, clustered, base bulbous.
Pileus one or more in diameter, flesh rather thick bright
yellow. Gills many in a set, lying on each other.
Stem 4-5 inches in length height, sometimes over inch
in diameter at the bulbous base: longitudinally striated
and splitting; scaly fertile, flesh yellowish: Several
growing from the same point.
Colour is of A. campestris.