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Kents Hill, [Ne.?] Dec. 20, 1880
Prof. Bessey: [?] yours of the 15 [just?] is at hand
+ I am glad to be corrected, I have the Portland
Society's Cat., but it was away and the Portland people themselves say it
is imperfect, so we do not look to it confidently for
rare plants. So I looked up Gray's + Wood's Manuals,
Sargent's Cat. of Forest Trees and the state Nat. Hist.
Reports, and not finding [?] credited to [Ne?], I inferred
that it could not have been heretofore reported
or some of these would have recorded it.
As I have already sent to Prof. Sargent statements as to
the Kent's Hill specimen, I am not desirous of any further
notice of that, but it may be well to call attention
to the Waterville sp.[?] and the omission in the Manuals
and Catalogues. Very truly yours, [?] H Stone.