
          I could wish you however in your [Crossed out: ?] notice of the Geo. range
to be a little more particular. Canada to Carolina is too
indefinite, it ought always I think to [Crossed out: be stated] [Added: appear] whether it is through
N.E. [New England] & the Atlantic coast to Carolina, or only through the west
of the Mts. & Mts. or through both, the words would not accumulate 
very fast I think, & it seems almost necessary, especially as so many
plants are confined either to the Atlantic coast, or to the mountains, &
the west. The L. limit ought also to express whether it is the low
country of the S.[Southern] States, or the upper country only, when you get
to Florida &c.[etc.] it is of course all low country.

Canada through N.Y & N.E to the upper country of Carolina west to Missouri & Kentucky

You know better than I do taht there are many plants
that extend from Upper Canada to Carolina, but are
not found in the Northern or Middle States East of
the Allegany mountains.

It could also I think be well (as
Canada is still perhaps rather an indefinite word, to limit it by
definition & also to state the latitude of the Northern Station [Added: and also separate appen & lower Canada, which differ greatly in lat. If Canada
were confined to a narrow strip on the North of the St. Lawrence it would [?]
as well as the limit Mass. or Maine. Indeed I think it would be well to
say [Crossed out: S. of Mass south of Main] S.[Southern] part of mass. [Crossed out: South of] S. part of Maine, &c[etc.] when the plant
is confined to the southern part.

In the fall of 1839, in the beginning of Oct. I
visited the S extremity of Maine, in order to extend your citation as far
north as possible [Crossed out: this] [Added: many of your citations stop at Mass. though the species is undoubtedly found in Maine] region is extremely barren. I had the pleasure
however of finding Stachys arvensis well naturalized. I found a few specimens
of this before 1820 in the road side in Cambridge Mass. Quercus Castanea is
abundant about Agamenticus in York Main, this species seems to be scattered
in [Crossed out: distant local] localities distant from one another. It is not found in N. York?

I know you will excuse my suggestions on the Geog.[Geographic] range. I know it is very difficult
to be exact without using many words. In your last numbers you obviate the difficulty in many
cases by the words "the western part of N.Y." &c.[etc.] In other cases you quote Big.[Bigelow] &c.[Etc.] by which it
appears that the species grows in N. England. But there are still many cases like that of Spirea opulifolia
where it is given "Canada to Georgia", & which are left uncertain whether the plant grows in
N.E. or not. I suppose it does not, at any rate, it cannot be found as a native of N.E. in any book
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