ROSSITER JOHNSON
\ɹˈɒsɪtə d͡ʒˈɒnsən], \ɹˈɒsɪtə dʒˈɒnsən], \ɹ_ˈɒ_s_ɪ_t_ə dʒ_ˈɒ_n_s_ə_n]\
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An American author and editor; born, Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1840. Editor Rochester Democrat, and later Concord, (N. H.) Statesman, 1869-72. Author of "Phaeton Rogers"; "A History of the War Between the United States and Great Britain"; "Idler and Poet" (poems); "A History of the War of Secession"; "The End of a Rainbow"; "Three Decades" (poems); "A short History of the War Between the United States and Spain"; "The Hero of Manila"; "Morning Lights and Evening Shadows" (poems); "The Alphabet of Rhetoric", etc. Editor "Little Classics"; "Works of the British Poets"; "The Annual Cyclopaedia", etc. Associate editor "The American Cyclopaedia"; "The Standard Dictionary"; "Cyclopaedia of American Biography; "The Story of the Constitution of the U. S".
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).
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