Lilian Hawker

Lilian Edith Hawker (19 May 1908 – 5 February 1991) was an English mycologist and botanist. She was the president of the British Mycological Society for one year from 1955 to 1956.

Quotes

• 1 Hypogeous fungi are those soil fungi which produce macroscopic fruit-bodies partially or completely embedded in soil or humus. While showing a superficial similarity correlated with habitat, they include members of the Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes and Phycomycetes.
  2 The edible truffles have been known from very early times, and speculations as to their nature are found in Greek and Roman literature. Other groups, which are not edible, were described later. The monographs of Vittadini (1831, 1842) and L. R. & C. Tulasne (1851) are the starting-point for all modern work on these fungi.
  • (May 1955) "Hypogeous fungi". Biological Review 30 (2): 127–158. DOI:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1955.tb01578.x.

• The fungi are remarkable for diversity of both form and function. Their ability to break down and to synthesize complex substances largely accounts for their success in colonizing widely different habitats, and has them of the greatest economic importance as parasites, as saprophytes in the soil and on varied commercial products, and as the producers of antibiotics, organic acids and other substances useful to man.
  • The Physiology of Reproduction in Fungi. Cambridge University Press. 2016. p. 1. ISBN 9781316509883.  (136 pages; 1st edition 1957)

Fungi: An Introduction (1960)

• The rusts are highly specialised obligate parasites of flowering plants, conifers and ferns. The cereal rusts are amon the most destructive pathogens of economic plants ...
  • Fungi: an Introduction. Volume 19 of Hutchinson university library: Biological sciences. Hutchinson. 1966. p. 167. ISBN 9780090789924.  (216 pages; 1st edition 1960)

• Polyporus is a large genus of which one of the best known species is P. betulinus, a destructive parasite of birch, but including also species parasitic on economically valuable trees, such as oak, beech and many conifers.
  • p. 187

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Lilian Hawker on Wikipedia