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\lafkˈe͡ɪdɪˌə͡ʊ hˈi͡ən], \lafkˈeɪdɪˌəʊ hˈiən], \l_a_f_k_ˈeɪ_d_ɪ__ˌəʊ h_ˈiə_n]\
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An American journalist and miscellaneous writer; born of an English father and a Greek mother, at Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, June 27, 1850. He was educated in England and France, and has since resided in this country and in Japan. He has written: "Some Chinese Ghosts" (1887), six stories exquisitely told; "Two Years in the French West Indies" (1890); "Youma" (1890), the story of a West-Indian slave; "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan", and several other books on Japan, including "Kokovo; Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life"; "Gleanings in Buddha Fields", etc. Died Tokio, Sept. 26, 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).