Sir William Jackson Hooker     (1785 - 1865)




Image of Amanita muscaria var. muscaria from Abbé Giacomo Bresadola (1927 - 1960) Iconographia mycologica
Amanita muscaria var. muscaria

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Biography

Self-taught cryptogamic botanist and founder of Kew Botanical Gardens. His son, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, who succeeded him as the head of Kew, was a much more famous and eminent botanist in general, but because J. D. worked with phanerogams, his dad ended up making much more of a contribution to mycology.

Sources

Duane Isley (1994) One Hundred and One Botanists


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Home Page

W. J. Hooker - Encyclopedia Britannica


Selected Publications

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1821) Flora scotica (Plants of Scotland) 2 vol.

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1833) The English Flora: volume 5, part 1


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Species

Amanita muscaria var. muscaria (Linnaeus: Fries) W. J. Hooker

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Genera

Amanita Persoon: W. J. Hooker

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