PAUL ALLEN
\pˈɔːl ˈalən], \pˈɔːl ˈalən], \p_ˈɔː_l ˈa_l_ə_n]\
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An American miscellaneous writer and journalist; born at Providence, R. I., Feb. 15, 1775; died at Baltimore, Aug. 18, 1826. He studied law originally, but became a journalist, and edited newspapers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He wrote: "Poems" (1801); "Lewis and Clark's Travels" (1814); "Life of Alexander I". (1818), 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).