STATE RIGHTS
\stˈe͡ɪt ɹˈa͡ɪts], \stˈeɪt ɹˈaɪts], \s_t_ˈeɪ_t ɹ_ˈaɪ_t_s]\
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The rights reserved by the separate states of the American Union, when they surrendered certain prerogatives of independent states to the central authority of the confederacy. The conflict between these two interests led ultimately to the war of secession, which ended in the overthrow of the Confederate states of the South in 1865-66.
By Henry Percy Smith
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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).