102

[A. Gray to C. E. Bessey

[2]

bordering the Mississippii & Missouri.

I see, if you expant out on to
the plains, it will not add very
much. I must, as soon as I
had printed to C[?] (part
II of Vol. I.) for [?] [Farlow?]
to put this [?] [maybe?].

If I rightly understand, you
ask whether the Manual in
[pin?] type, might not be extended
to Atlantic N. J. Botany [?]
which was my idea. Only
I thought of a Plain &
Mountain Botany as well
as a Pacific Botany, to
come one of these days – after me.
Yet I see the thing had
better be 1 Atlantic & 2
Pacific, giving the latter a
wide range in longitude.

Well, the Plains Manual,