page_title: William Wilson (botanist)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Wilson (botanist) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Rosa Wilsoni, named after William Wilson, plate from Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby.
context_page_description: William M. Wilson was an English botanist, known for his focus on bryology.
context_section_description: Wilson was entrusted with the description of the mosses collected in the voyages of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under  James Clark Ross (expedition to Antarctica from 1839 to 1843), and of HMS Herald under Henry Kellett. He made an early account of Tasmanian mosses, describing many novelties.
  Wilson entered into correspondence with specialists: Sextus Otto Lindberg and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper. His major work was the Bryologia Britannica (1855) intended as a third edition of the Muscologia Britannica (1818) of Hooker and Thomas Taylor, but was substantially a new work. Over a hundred new species of British mosses were then added to the list between its publication and his death.
  Besides the Cotoneaster, Wilson added a new species of rose, a fern, and many mosses to the British list, the rose Rosa Wilsoni being named after him by William Borrer, and the Killarney filmy fern named Hymenophyllum wilsonii by Hooker. Wilson described many new species of exotic mosses in the Journal of Botany. His papers were enumerated in the Royal Society's Catalogue (vi. 389, viii. 1249), and his herbarium and botanical correspondence went to the Natural History Museum.
caption: Rosa Wilsoni
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