WILHELM WALLOTH
\wˈɪlhɛlm wˈɒlɒθ], \wˈɪlhɛlm wˈɒlɒθ], \w_ˈɪ_l_h_ɛ_l_m w_ˈɒ_l_ɒ_θ]\
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A German story-writer; born at Darmstadt, Oct. 6, 1856. He wrote: "The King's Treasure House" (3 vols., 1883); "Paris the Mime" (1886); "The Gladiator" (1888); "Tiberius" (2 vols., 1889); "The Demon of Envy" (1889), "There Came a Hoar Frost" (1893), "Love's Fools" (1894), three stories of modern life; and some dramas, as "Countess Pusterla", "John of Suabia", "Marino Falieri": "The Sacrifice"; "Alboin".
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).