FOSTER BARHAM ZINCKE
\fˈɒstə bˈɑːɹəm zˈɪŋk], \fˈɒstə bˈɑːɹəm zˈɪŋk], \f_ˈɒ_s_t_ə b_ˈɑː_ɹ_ə_m z_ˈɪ_ŋ_k]\
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An English religious and miscellaneous writer. He became vicar of Wherstead, near Ipswich, and chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen. He wrote: "Last Winter in the United States" (1868); "The Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedive" (new ed. 1873); "A Month in Switzerland" (1873); "The Swiss Germans" (1874); "A Walk in the Grisons" (1875); "The Plow and the Dollar". Died Aug. 23, 1893.
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).