From: dimitar@pontix.com   
      
   Looks to me like (Neo)Lentinus ponderosus. Was it hard when dry?   
   Go to Google images and search for that.   
      
           D.   
      
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1148874008.692771.257720@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
   > Found this in a compost pile at a friends house in Port Matilda,   
   > Pennsylvania.  Gills are chocolate brown as are the spores.  Cap is   
   > very heavily cracked.  Looks a little like some sample of stropharia I   
   > see on the web.   I don't have any of my books with me so haven't keyed   
   > it out.  It is a big mushroom about 9-10" across.  It was growing with   
   > smaller mushrooms that also had the beige cap and brown spores but they   
   > were younger and smaller and had white gills that were veiled   
   > initially.   
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   > http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938422/large   
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   > http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938424/large   
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   > http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938426/large   
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   > thanks,   
   >   
   > Mike   
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