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soon, but eee: to do so later; he asks for the localities of the 
Conyza of Lingua avis seu Virga aurea species [Senecio 
paltidosus] ‘i pi sight of w™ will give me ime temptations of 
visiting you w I believe will be in a chaise. The Stratiotes 
n geti 
Peatheshetds or fitegible] will never stop untill y come to their 
Journey’s end.” e mentions that he has completed the ten 
decades of his Gaara acseane ah Massey ‘shall have for 
30 shillings with a Table dedicated to you on condition you will 
be a Patron to my British Herball.” 
ere s reply (not dated and thus out of its sequence) is in 
MS. 4067, f. 48: “Lingua avis grows near Stretham ferry in the 
t give me leave & the Gentlemen of y* Club are not at all 
salons in naturall HOT I us aren it to pei but I coud 
wish I had a specimen of y® work to show the The Club 
referred to is the rite deg Society at Spa ‘ldin ng, whereof 
Massey was a member, and of which a ne account will be found 
in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, vi. pp. 1-162. Massey expresses 
his ‘design to set out for the Peak Cheshire Laneashire &c. on 
Monday the 21 of this month [June] & shall return the Saturday 
17th of July, about which time I shall expect y™ company at 
Wisbech. My enquirys are most after Antiquitys Medalls & 
Manuscripts Wherever I goe, my time not being sufficient for 
Botanical enquirys.” Petiver, with characteristic enthusiasm and 
undeterred by this last remark, writes at once (June 16) sending 
y° » Linas Avis pe y® Conyza irene fol. integris & laciniatis ”’ 
(3340, t 66). It is to be feared that the lavish llc of “a 
quire or two” (or more) of the latter at a com ratively vents 
date is largely if not entirely — for the exkinokia of this 
rare British plant, if indeed it be extin 
In June, 1716, Massey writes to dose regarding a large pot 
of copper coins send a countryman in an adjoining parish, 
