HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS
\hˈɛnɹi ˈɔːɡəstˌɪn bˈi͡əz], \hˈɛnɹi ˈɔːɡəstˌɪn bˈiəz], \h_ˈɛ_n_ɹ_i_ ˈɔː_ɡ_ə_s_t_ˌɪ_n b_ˈiə_z]\
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An American author; born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 2, 1847. He graduated from Yale in 1859, became tutor there in 1871, and professor of English literature in 1880. He has published among other works: "A Century of American Literature" (1878); "The Thankless Muse", poems (1886); "From Chaucer to Tennyson" (1890); "Initial Studies in American Letters" (1892); "A Suburban Pastoral, and Other Tales" (1894); "The Ways of Yale" (1895); "Points at Issue" (1904).
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).