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1908–1991 England

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.

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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 (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.

Fungi: An Introduction (1960)

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