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    Agyrium is a genus of saprophytic fungi in the family Agyriaceae. It probably evolved from a lichen ancestor, as it is closely related to many lichenized...
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    Agira (redirect from Agyrium (Sicily))
    the ancient Sicel city of Agyrion (Ancient Greek: Ἀγύριον - Agyrion), or Agyrium, and Agyrina, On the top of the mountain where the castle stands, excavations...
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    work of many other authors. According to his own work, he was born in Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). With one exception, antiquity affords no...
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    Family: Parmeliaceae Genus: Phacopsis Species: P. vulpina Binomial name Phacopsis vulpina Tul. (1852) Synonyms Agyrium vulpinum (Tul.) H.Olivier (1906)...
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  • excelsior). Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries had earlier described Agyrium atrovirens, a species interpreted as synonymous with T. exigua, on the...
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    gelatinous, dividing it into the genera Agyrium, Dacrymyces, Exidia, Hymenella, Naematelia, and Tremella. Agyrium and Hymenella are now referred to the...
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    or oven-shaped, take the form of beehives. The chief Sicel towns were Agyrium (Agira); Centuripa or Centuripae (Centorbi but now once again called Centuripe);...
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    Tyrrhenian coast along the Simeto river; it joined Aetna (Paternò), Centuripe, Agyrium (Agira), Assorum (Assoro), Henna (Enna) and continued up to Termini Imerese...
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  • town of Sicily, on the road between Centuripae (modern Centuripe) and Agyrium (modern Agira). The town was taken in 269 BCE by the forces of Hiero II...
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    city of the interior of ancient Sicily, situated about halfway between Agyrium and Enna. It was a city of the Siculi, and appears never to have received...
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