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Agaricus.
Oct 29th 1839
Description. grown in an old rich pasture with short grass. When young buttony, then umbrella shaped, then distended, at got nearly four inches, finally turned up
yellow becoming of a buttery brown and shovelled. The does not grow in clusters.
The tops of the pileus finally becomes downward.