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Ivy Massee (9 October 1895 – 11th July 1951) was an English mycologist, scientific illustrator and botanist.

Mycological and Botanist Career
Ivy’s most notable contribution to mycology is the illustrations she produced for her father‘s (George Massee) book titled British Fungi with a Chapter on Lichens. Ivy’s completed forty illustrations for the book on coloured plates.

Ivy was also an active collector in the mycological field.

She was also a Mycological Committee member, during 25th annual meeting of the committee held at North Yorkshire in 1913, she presented a paper on the Genus Mycena along with an array of micro structure illustrations, it was in this meeting where she was proposed to join the committee.

She is also recognised as a botanist, she collected and painted plants. As part of her botanist research, she produced a series of poplar illustrations for Augustine Henry which are now at Glasnevin.

Personal Life
Born to George Massee and Emily Jane Aldridge in 1895, she was one of six siblings.

Her Father, George Massee was a famous British Mycologist and was the first president of the British Mycological Society.