MALVERN, WATERS OF
\mˈɔːlvən], \mˈɔːlvən], \m_ˈɔː_l_v_ə_n]\
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The village of Great Malvern, (pronounced Mawvern,) in Worcestershire, England, has for many years been celebrated for a spring of remarkable purity, which has acquired the name of the Holy well. It is a carbonated water; containing carbonates of soda and iron, sulphate of soda, and chloride of sodium; and is chiefly used externally, in cutaneous affections.
By Robley Dunglison
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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).