POWELL, JOHN W
\pˈa͡ʊɛl], \pˈaʊɛl], \p_ˈaʊ_ɛ_l]\
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born in 1824, was a lieutenant-colonel of Illinois artillery during the Civil War. He secured the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnography at the Smithsonian Institution, and is director of the former.
By John Franklin Jameson
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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).