BRITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. l8l 



White, W. H. (fl. 1831-42). Memb. Bot. Soc. Lond. ' New 

 species of Epilobiwm,' Mag. Zool. Bot. 1838, 208. E. S. C. 

 vi. 350. 



Whitehead, Rev. Edward (1799 ?-1827) : b. Bolton, Lanca- 

 , shire, 1799?; d. Eastham, Worcester, 4 June, 1827. M.A. 

 Oxon, 1812; B.D., 1820. Eector, Eastham, Worcester; 

 1805. Discovered Aconitum as British, 1819. El. Hereford- 

 shire, 12. 



Whitehead, John (fl. 1862). OfDukinfield. Operative. Mus- 

 cologist. Cott. Gard. xxviii. 585. • 



Whitfield, Thomas (fl. 1845). Collector for Lord Derby at Sierra 

 Leone and in interior. Bot. Mag. 4165. WhitfielMa Hook. 



Whitla, Francis (fl. 1830-53). Of Belfast, later of Dublin, 

 Knew Irish plants well. Distinguished Equisetum trachyodon. 

 ' Fossil Equiseta,'Journ. Geol. Soc. Ireland, 1838, 79. Journ. 

 Bot. 1846, 311. E. S. C. vi. 351. Whitlcmia Harv. 



Whitlaw, Charles (fl. 1776-1829): b. Bast Lothian, 1776? 

 Quack doctor. In Edinburgh Bot. Garden, 1794-6. To New 

 York, 1796; travelled in America, 1803-16; in London, 

 1819-24 ; to America, 1825 ; to London, 1826. ' New Medi- 

 cal Discoveries,' with transl. of Linngeus's ' Materia Medica,' 

 1829 (autobiography, pp. 42-112). 



Whittle, Peter A. (fl. 1789-1853) : b. Inglewhite, Goosnargh, 

 Lancashire, 9 July, 1789. Bookseller and printer. ' Flora 

 Prestoniensis,' unpublished, in 1837. Autobiog. in 'Hist. 

 Preston,' ii. 336. 



Widdrington, Samuel Edward {plim Cook) (d. 1856) : d. 11 

 Jan., 1856. Captain E.N. Took name of Widdrington, 1840. 

 In Spain, 1829-32, and in 1843. ' European Pines,' Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. ii. 163 ; iii. 296; viii. 87. ' Vegetation of Spain,' Eeg. 

 Brit. Assoc- 1847, ii. 88. Michaud. Widdringtonia Endl. 



Wigg, Lilly (1749-1828): b. SmaUburgh, Norfolk, 25 Dec, 

 1749 ; d. Gt. Yarmouth, 28 March, 1828. Of Gt. Yarmouth. 

 Shoemaker, schoolmaster, and bank-clerk. A.L.S., 1790. 

 Instructed Dawson Turner in Algae. " A most ingenious and 

 accurate observer," Smith. MS. on Esculent PI. in Bot. 

 Dept., Mus. Brit., and 'Flora Cibaria ' at Kew, which con- 

 tains pencil portrait by Mrs. Dawson Turner, &c. Contrib. 

 to E. Bot. (205, 419, 671, 847, 2247), and to Withering, ed. 2. 

 Linn. Trans, vi. 126, 136 ; Gent. Mag. 1830, i. ; Trans. Norf. 

 Nat. Soc. ii. 269 ; Hind, Fl. Suffolk, 480. Portr. at Linn. 

 Soc. and Kew. ■ Fucus Wigghvi Turn. = Naccaria Wigghii. 



Wight, Robert (1796-1872) : b. Mitton, Duncra Hill, E. Lothian, 

 6 July, 1796 ; d. Grazeley, nr. Eeading, Berks, 26 May, 1872. 

 M.D. Edin., 1816. F.L.S., 1832 ; F.E.S., 1855. In India, 

 1819-53. Superintendent, Bot. Gard., Madras. 'Prodromus 

 Fl. Peninsul. Orient.' (with Arnott), 1834. ' Illustrations of 

 Indian Bot.,' 1838-40. Discovered Carex Grahami, 1832, 

 Herbarium at Kew. Pritz. 346 ; Jacks. 620 ; E. S. C. vi. 

 364; Gard. Chron. 1872, 731; E. Bot.- 2923; Journ. Bot. 



. . 1841, 156 (portr.) ; 1872, 223 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xi. 

 363 (portr. and bibliog.). Photo, at Kew. Wightia 'W&ll. 



