Statistics of the Flora of the Northern States. 389 
ering from the first as large an area as it subsequently possessed. 
The Distribution of our Phenogamous Species, and of the Indi- 
viduals which represent them, within the limits of our Flora. 
_ The distribution of the materials of our flora over the surface 
meluded within its limits, is a subject which I have not room 
hor time left for discussing with anything of the fullness it de- 
serves. Properly to discuss this and kindred topics would re- 
tent of country it ranges over, and the relative abun of its 
individuals. o get some general idea of both points, E have 
¥ So, ey 
our borders, however widely they may range beyond them on 
any side; 2, those of narrow restricted ra 
oe of our territory; and 3, wi — species, which have 
n found over nearly the whole d breadth 
territory. Then, by a different set of marks T have indicated, 1, 
those Species which are very scarce in individuals in their r 
habitat ; 2, those which are not abundant in individuals; and 8, 
