BRANTZ MAYER
\bɹˈants mˈe͡ɪə], \bɹˈants mˈeɪə], \b_ɹ_ˈa_n_t_s m_ˈeɪ_ə]\
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An American journalist, descriptive writer, and novelist; born at Baltimore, Md., Sept. 27, 1809; died there, Feb. 23, 1879. He was a lawyer by profession; became editor of the Baltimore American; was attached to the American Iegation in Mexico, 1841-42; served in the Civil War. He wrote several works on Mexico, including "Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican" (2 vols., 1853), his best work; "Captain Canot" (1854), a novel; etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).