WILLIAM THOMAS CARROLL RYAN
\wˈɪli͡əm tˈɒməs kˈaɹə͡ʊl ɹˈa͡ɪən], \wˈɪliəm tˈɒməs kˈaɹəʊl ɹˈaɪən], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m t_ˈɒ_m_ə_s k_ˈa_ɹ_əʊ_l ɹ_ˈaɪ_ə_n]\
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A Canadian author; born in Toronto, Ont., Feb. 3, 1839. Upon leaving the army, where he served during the Crimean War, he devoted himself to journalism and literature. He has edited and published a number of Canadian newspapers, has contributed articles and poems to magazines, and has lectured on the Liberal side. His published works, which he signs "Carroll Ryan", are: "Oscar, and Other Poems" (1857); "Songs of a Wanderer" (1867); "The Canadian Northwest and the Canadian Pacific Railway" (1875); and "Picture Poems" (1884).
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).