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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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  • 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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    Family: Parmeliaceae Genus: Phacopsis Species: P. vulpina Binomial name Phacopsis vulpina Tul. (1852) Synonyms Agyrium vulpinum (Tul.) H.Olivier (1906)...
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  • tyrant of Syracuse, who was aided by Agyris, tyrant of the Sicel city of Agyrium. Mago had been defeated by Dionysius at Abacaenum in 393, which had not...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Diodorus Siculus, Library of History volumes I–III. Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, c. 80–20 BC, wrote forty books of world history, called Library...
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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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  • part of Sicily. Among the cities subject to his rule we find mention of Agyrium, which is a sufficient proof of the extent of his dominions. He at the...
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  • type species is named for its resemblance to some members of the genus Agyrium. The genus was circumscribed by Richard Paul Korf, María Teresita 'Teresa'...
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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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  • there by Dionysius, who having secured the alliance of Agyris, tyrant of Agyrium, succeeded in cutting off the supplies of the enemy. As a result, Dionysius...
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  • ancient Sicily who was one of the most influential citizens of the town of Agyrium (modern Agira). He is described by the writer Cicero as having given evidence...
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    traditional classifications, leading to significant changes. For example, Agyrium rufum, once thought to relate to the Trapeliaceae family within Agyriales...
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    of lichenized fungi in the order Pertusariales. It contains two genera: Agyrium, and Miltidea. The family was circumscribed by August Carl Joseph Corda...
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  • peculiar honors during the Greek civilization, and afterwards through that of Agyrium, it joins the Simeto in the plain of Catania, about 30 kilometres (19 mi)...
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    1910. Subsequent revisions saw it placed in different genera, including Agyrium hepaticola by Keissler (1921) and Lecidea symmictella var. albida by Vainio...
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  • R. (1988). "Skyttella, a new genus for Phacopsis mulleri Willey (syn. Agyrium flavescens Rehm)". Graphis Scripta. 2: 33–37. Etayo, J. (2017). Hongos...
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    deposed: the Campanians in Aetna, Nicodemus in Centuripae and Apolloniades in Agyrium. Timoleon succeeded in ending the warfare on Sicily between the Greek tyrants...
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    (1995) Former species; E. agyrioides Corda (1837) = Epicoccum nigrum E. agyrium Corda (1837) = Epicoccum nigrum E. aleurophilum (Sacc.) Mussat (1901) =...
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  • (1873) Species S. australis S. geophana S. luridescens Synonyms Agyrina (Sacc.) Clem. (1909) Agyrium subgen. Agyrina Sacc. (1884) Pleolecis Clem. (1909)...
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  • territory fertile in corn. That writer associates it with Herbita, Assorus, Agyrium (modern Agira), and other towns of the interior, in a manner that would...
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    Tuckerman (as "Xylographei"). His concept of the family included only Agyrium, and the type genus, Xylographa. In 1929, British lichenologist Walter...
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  • provoke Agyris, tyrant of Agyrium and second only to Dionysius in Sicily. Alliances were made with the Sicel cities of Agyrium, Herbita, Assorus and Herbessus...
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  • expanded to border Agyrium. Agyris, tyrant of Agyrium was a ruthless man, having become rich after killing the leading citizens of Agyrium, commanded 20,000...
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    of 60,000. According to Diodorus Syracuse received 40,000 colonists and Agyrium 10,000. Furthermore, he writes that Timoleon transferred the people of...
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    ; Santesson, Rolf (1988). "Skyttella, a new genus for Phacopsis mulleri Willey (syn. Agyrium flavescens Rehm)" (PDF). Graphis Scripta. 2 (2): 33–37....
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