AUGUSTA JANE EVANS (WILSON)
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A popular American novelist; born in Columbus, Ga., May 8, 1835. Her writings include: "Inez, a Tale of the Alamo" (1856); "Beulah", the most distinguished of her novels (1859); "St. Elmo" (1866); and "At the Mercy of Tiberius" (1887).
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).