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### Author
Phillips, William (1822-1905), British botanist, mycologist and antiquary at Shrewsbury.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. Phillips* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Phillips*\]
#### Herbarium and types
acquired by BM (with drawings of fungi), now at [[Collection K|K]]. – Duplicates in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection PAD|PAD]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection W|W]].
*Exsiccatae*: *Elvellacei britannici*, fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-201, 1874-1881, sets in above-mentioned herbaria. Phillips contributed specimens to M.C. Cooke, *Fungi britannici* and to Plowright, *Sphaeriacei britannici*, q.v.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 82; BB p. 243; BL 2: 263, 702; BM 4: 1569; CSP 8: 618, 11: 10, 12: 575, 17: 853-854; Desmond p. 494 (further biogr. refs.); De Toni 1: xcix; DNB suppl. 2, 3: 115-116; GR p. 278, cat. p. 69; Hawksworth p. 185; Jackson p. 259; Kelly p. 175-176; Kew 4: 300-301; LS 20628-20682, 37921-37924 (bibl.); Morren ed. 10, p. 77; Rehder 5: 670; Stevenson p. 1254; Urban-Berl. p. 280.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Ann. Scot. nat. Hist. 57: 57-58. 1906 (obit.); Bot. Centralbl. 19: 253. 1884 (specimens at BM); Bot. Not. 1906: 45 (b. 4 Mai 1822, d. 22 Oct 1905); J. Bot. 13: 63. 1875 (*Elvellacei*, fasc. of 50 species available), 43: 336. 1905 (d. 22 Oct 1905).
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.399. 1980.
- Britten, J., ed., J. Bot. 43: 361-362. 1905 (portr.), 44: 184. 1906 (herb. and drawings of fungi acquired by BM).
- Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 2987-2990. 1980.
- Hamlin, R.T., Index Grevillea 160-161. 1978.
- Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 133. 1977 (bibl.).
- Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 118. 1970 (specimens at E).
- Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 52 (coll. K), Proc. Linn. Soc. 118: 44-45. 1906 (obit.).
- Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 72. 1957.
- Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 173. 1904 (exsicc).
- Palmer, J.T., Nova Hedwigia 15: 152. 1968.
- Plowright, C.B., Gard. Chron. 1905(2): 331-332 (portr., obit.).
- Praeger, R.L., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 7: cxxxvii. 1901.
- Seaver, F.J., N. Amer. cup fungi 363. 1942.
- Winter, Bot. Centralbl. 8: 91. 1881 (*Elvell. brit.* fasc. 4, publ. 1881).
#### Eponymy
*Phillipsiella* M.C. Cooke (1878). *Note*: *Phillipsia* M. J. Berkeley (1881) is also very likely named for this author; *Phillipsia* Rolfe ex J.G. Baker (1895) is named for Mrs. E. Lort-Phillips, a plant collector in Somaliland; *Phillipsiella* Lemmermann (1899) honors Frederick W. Phillips, English protozoologist of the 19th Century.
### Publications
##### n.7872. British lichens
**Title**
*British lichens*: how to study them... Birmingham (Herald Printing Office,...) 1880. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1880 (Grevillea Mar 1881; Nat. Nov. Oct(1) 1881 as of 1881), p. \[1\]-17, *pl*. 5.
*Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from the Midland Naturalist 3: 125-128, 167-172, 196-199, 241-245. 1880.
##### n.7873. A manual of the British Discomycetes
**Title**
*A manual of the British Discomycetes* with descriptions of all the species of fungi hitherto found in Britain, included in the family and illustrations of the genera... London (Kegan Paul, French & Co.,...) 1887. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Man. Brit. Discomyc*.
**Notes**
*Ed. 1*: late 1887, or Jan-Feb 1888 (p. vii: Aug 1887; Grevillea Mar 1888; Nat. Nov. Jun(1) 1888; Bot. Centralbl. 16-20 Jan 1888; Bot. Zeit. 24 Feb 1888; Bot. Gaz. Apr 1888), p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-462, *pl. 1-12* (uncol., auct.). *Copies*: B, BR, FH, G, MO, NY, Stevenson. – "The international scientific series" vol. 61.
*Ed. 2*: 1893, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-462, *pl. 1-12* (id.). *Copies*: B, FH, NY, Stevenson, USDA. – Second edition" London (Kegan Paul, French Trübner & Co., Ltd.) 1893. Unchanged reprint.
*Ref*.: Peck, C.H., Bot. Gaz. 13: 101-102. 1888.
- Wettstein, Bot. Centralbl. 34: 197. 14-18 Mai 1888.