946 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
March 24, 1707, he writes to Sloane as to his marriage, on his 
return from his ‘dreaming month’—a pretty synonym for 
honeymoon; and on Noy. 2 writes ‘‘my wife made me a present 
of a lusty = yestermorn.’ 
n August, 1709, Massey writes of a visit to Cheshire and 
et with 
Lancashire, pees which he met with “an sh eran picture in 
oil paint of Mary Davies, the Horned Woman of aughall in 
ae ” for this he was anxious to “ hear of wohd apman.” * 
m this period until 1713 his poles. relate chiefly to the 
panes: of books and ne , which ad begun to collect as 
early as 1705. He he very conside oa library, of which he 
published a Catalogue (I ba not been able to see a copy) in 1718: 
o MSS. formerly in his possession are in the Sloane collection 
a 1124, gtd In 1712 he was se da a Fellow of the Royal Society. 
ov. 9, 1713, Massey writes to Sloane concerning the 
redial pant of Agri Sagi odorata, of which, assuming the 
from 1853, when it was recorded in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (xi. 363) 
as having been found in Ireland by Babington ana Newbould, and 
in Devon and Cornwall by Joseph Woods. His letter runs :— 
‘For some years past I have much used in my Practise an 
Infusion or tea made with the leaves of the Agrimonia odorata 
cases wceh. are fre 
Pectoral drink I prescribe. A small bed w® I cultivate in my 
afford it I will send you a tryall by the ses 
Although only one letter (Feb. 19, 1712) during the ae 
period has been preserved, Massey’s corre rrespondence with Petive 
seems to have been steady. On May 24, 1714, he writes that fi 
laciniatis [Cineraria palustris] on way t 
replies on May 27 (MS. 3340, f. 63, back) that Pam could not go so 
Ee orned women’’ were exciting some attention at this period ; 
p n Memoirs for the ‘owas: ii. 197. Portraits of Mary one are in gs 
ys pw Collection and in Leigh’s Natural History of Cheshir 
