WILLIAM PHILLIPS, F.L.S. 361 
dilatuta Presl. Croesgoch. In Top. Bot., Counties all except 
. 42 to 74” is no doubt a misprint for “42 t 0 44.” 
: 2 Meatisaticn maximum Lam. By the streamlet, Whitesand Bay.— 
E. limosum 8m. var. fluviatile (L.). Ditch, Dowro g Marsh. 
tlularia globulifera L. In fair quantity both in shallow mar- 
gins of Trefeithan Pwll, and Waun Faw 
species for which no station is given were all found quite 
near St. David's. 
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, F.L.S. 
(1822-1905.) 
a PORTRAIT.) 
we of ten, where he subsequently ‘joined his 
brothers in business. He took up botany in middle life, through 
Se catce with the Rey. W. A. Leighton, ceyoung his attention 
at first to flowering plants as well as to fungi, on which latter he 
ultimately specialized. He contributed notes ms reviews to most 
volumes of this Journal between 1871 and 1893, in which latter 
year he published a figure Steele by himself) and description of 
Gyromitra gigas; his papers on fungi appeared for the most part in 
logical Society a paper on the Hymenomycetes of the county. He 
also published the a set of specimens entitled ‘ Elvellacei 
rita 1875 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society. 
‘lips’ 8 ache work, however, was the Manual of the British 
Discomycetes, ieee was published in 1887 in the International 
Scientific Series. This was accepted by pattie be as an important 
specimens and in the communication of unpublished matter from 
Mr. Berkeley, Dr. Co oke, and Mr. Broome, with whom he was on 
ees of intimacy ; his letters to Broome, from 1870 to 1885, are 
¢ Broome correspondence which is preserved in the National 
Herb, One of his most interesting papers is that published 
in the i emai - the Shropshire Archeological and Natural 
History Society in 1884 on ‘“ The Breaking of the Shropshire 
Meres,” wie he showed to be due to various alge, which he 
and described; he treated the same subject in the Midiand 
Naturalist oe 1893. 
In later life Phillips devoted himself more especially to anti- 
quarian research, es especially in connection with the history of the 
