296 | SAMUEL DALE. 
should be glad to know what success Mr. Sherrard and you had in 
Suffolk, and whether you found the Loving land Conyza and the 
Orford Medica. I have been in Kent, and at Dover found the 
Lychnis and Limonium, but mist the ews lucidus.”’ The 
ne hee alluded to are probably Senecio paludosus, Medicago 
— Silene paradowxa, Statice Bahusiensis (?), and Daucus 
he oe dead his work is not likely % be published: And being 
acquainted that his copy yi in your hands, my humble request to 
you is that you will please to vouchsafe me the perusal of it 
ee — you that it shall be safely return’d, and right done to the 
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Two months later he repeats his request in a letter of interest 
with ee to Buddle, aps also as showing the thoroughness of 
his work :—‘‘ Oct. 80,1717...... Mr. Buddle had write a 
Synopsis, Cataloge or some sarees thing on English plants which he 
did one time show me, and told me he intended to publish it, and 
ad nas e so far as to draw the Dedication and Preface, but that 
et hindered him in his design was this: Having either in Dedi- 
n or Preface said that the method was with the approbation of 
Mr. ‘Sicnatea and others, but they not approveing of it made him 
decline it: This latter part [had from Mr. Stonestreet more than once; 
and the same if I mistake not from Mr. Rand : Now having been told 
that you had purchased not only his plates but likewise this copy, 
made me write to you to desire the perusal of it..... and was the 
more surprised when I understood you had it not, betnilae I could 
not conjecture what had become of it, nor how you came to miss of 
you for the kind offer you state of a sight of his plants 
at your house, but this ou needs be impracticall as to me, for 
being in business, my time not permit my being so long - 
London, as the taking out of notes, and descriptions will requir 
besides, i vill be needfull for me to compare my own dryed peas 
with mista and to have my own copy at hand that so I might not 
warenk net may in some measure be prevented (for hamanum 
est wiper . you will visas’ as paral the volums of English plants 
to be s o Braintree, which sa may be without prejudice, by 
being me in a wooden case made to them; if you please to grant 
this favour Mr. Innys hath order rs have such a case made, and 
you may assure your rself they shall be carefully used and return’d 
faithfully.” It does not appear, however, whether this suggestion 
was ever acted upon. The Mr. Innys m mentioned was his publisher, 
and Henry Faithorne had been printer to the Royal Society. 
