GORDON, WILLIAM
\ɡˈɔːdən], \ɡˈɔːdən], \ɡ_ˈɔː_d_ə_n]\
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(1730-1807), an Englishman, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1770, and was active in Massachusetts politics. He returned to England in 1786, and published a valuable "History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States."
By John Franklin Jameson
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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).