RAY PALMER
\ɹˈe͡ɪ pˈɑːmə], \ɹˈeɪ pˈɑːmə], \ɹ_ˈeɪ p_ˈɑː_m_ə]\
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An American clergyman and hymn-writer; born at Little Compton, R. I., Nov. 12, 1808; died at Newark, N. J., March 29, 1887. He was pastor of Congregational churches in Bath, Me., and Albany, N. Y., and secretary of the Congregational Union, 1866-78. His best-known hymn is "My Faith Looks Up to Thee", which has been translated into twenty languages. He has published: "Spiritual Improvement" (1839); "Hymns and Sacred Pieces" (1865); "Hymns of my Holy Hours" (1866).
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).