ERIS
\ˈɛɹɪs], \ˈɛɹɪs], \ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_s]\
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/e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, andThings You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordiaand she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a veryfriendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinventedas a more benign personification of creative anarchy startingin 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since beena semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe"cultures, including hackerdom.See Church of the SubGenius.
By Denis Howe
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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).