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circ. 1658 ; d. London, 20 April, 1718. Apothecary to the 

 Charterhouse. F.E.S., 1696. Contributed hst of Middlesex 

 pi. to Gibson's ' Camden,' and to Bay's ' Historia," vols. ii. 

 andiii., and ' Synopsis,' ed. 2, and to Phil. Trans. 1697-1717. 

 . ' Opera,' 1764. Plants in Hb. Sloane. Sloane MSS. 3330- 

 3388. Pult. ii. 31; Pritz. 245; Jacks. 591; Fl. Midd. 379. 

 Petiveria Plumier. 



Petre, Robert James, 8th Baron (1713-43) : b. 3 June, 1713 ; 

 d. 2 July, 1748. P.E.S., 1731. " The Phcenix of this age," 

 Collinson. Had garden with large stoves, under Philip 

 Miller's supervision, at Thorndon, Essex. Introduced 

 Camellia japonica. Eich. Corr. 316, 340, 392; Linn. Corr. i. 

 9 ; MS. on fly-leaf of B. M. copy of Pult. ii. Petrea L. 



Phelps, Rev. William (c. 1776-1856) : b. Plax Bourton, 

 Somerset, circ. 1776; d. Oxcombe, Lincoln?, 17 Aug., 1856. 

 B.A. Oxon, 1797. Vicar of Meare and BicknoUer, Somerset, 

 1824. Eector of Oxcombe, Lincoln. ' Calendarium Botani- 

 cum,' 1810. Pritz. 246 ; Jacks. 233. 



Philiips, Henry (fl. 1798-1829). P.L.S. Writer on cultivated 

 plants. Schoolmaster at Bayswater ; then of Brighton. 

 ' Flora Historica," 1824, ed. 2, 1829. ' History of Vegetables,' 

 1822. 'Pomarium Brit.' 1820. Pritz. 246; Jacks. 592; 

 Johnson, 304. 



Phillips, John (1800-74) : b. Marden, Wilts, 25 Dec, 1800; d. 

 Oxford, 24 April, 1874 ; bur. York. Geologist. M.A. Oxon, 

 1853; D.C.L., 1866; L.L.D. Camb., 1866; Dublin, 1845. 

 F.E.S., 1834. Curator, York Museum, 1824. Prof. Geol., 

 King's College, 1834 ; DubUn, 1844 ; Oxford, 1853. ' Geology 

 of Yorkshire,' 1829-36. Jacks. 182 ; ' Nature," ix. (1874), 

 510. 



Phipps, Constantine John, 2nd Baron IVIulgrave (1744- 

 92) : b. 30 May, 1744 ; d. 10 Oct., 1792. Captain,. E.N. 

 M.P., Newark. Arctic Navigator, 1773, in ' Eacecourse ' and 

 ' Carcass,' with Israel Lyons. ' Voyage towards North Pole,' 

 1774. Plants, pp. 200-204, described by Solander. Suc- 

 ceeded to title, 1775. Lasegue, 395. Phipsia Trin. Phipp- 

 sia Br. 



Piddington, Henry (d. before 1873). Coroner in Calcutta. 

 ' English Index of Plants of India,' 1832. ' Tabular View of. 

 Genera in Eoxburgh's Fl. Indica,' 1834. Pritz. 247 ; Jacks. 

 383 ; E. S. C. iv. 904 ; Cyclop. India (ed. 2), iv. 567. Pid- 

 dingtonia DC. 



Piesse, George W. Septimus (1820-82) : b. 30 May, 1820 ; d. 

 Chiswick, 23 Oct., 1882. ' Art of Perfumery,' 1856. Pritz, 

 247 ; Jacks. 210. 



Pigott, — (fl. 1798-1808). Algologist. Friend of Stackhouse, 

 and correspondent of D. Turner. Imprisoned in France. 

 Stackhouse, Nereis, xxvi. ; Turner, Fuci, i. 130 (1808). 



Pike, — (d. c. 1772) : d. Chelsea Hospital, c. 1772. Of Bide- 

 ford, Devon. Lived many years in Eddystone Lighthouse. 

 Contrib. list of Bideford plants to Martin's Nat. Hist. Eng- 

 land (1759-63). Bot. Guide, 195. 



