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bordering the Mississippi & Missouri.

I see if you extend out on to
the plains, it will not add very
much. I must, as soon as I
had printed to [?] ([Pat.?]
II of vol. I.) for [?]. Flora
to put this through.

If I rightly understand, you
ask whether the Manual in
[free?] type, might not be extended
to Atlantic [M. S.?] Botany [one?]
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