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American planters obtained tlie greatest success, and I am 

 told that the entire crop in this province is now from seed 

 originally American." 



BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



A careful examination of the foreign cottons under con- 

 sideration would classify them as follows :- 



1. Gosfiyphim herhaceum yar microcarpum Tod: Broach, 

 Ghoghari. 



2. G. Wightianum Tod: Nadam, Deshi, Jakko, Eoji, Ni- 

 mari bani. 



3. G. roseum var alhiforum. Tod :Indrepur, Ghoghari, 

 Surat Kupas, Mirzapore, Roji. 



4. G. lih'sutum var album Tod: ludrepur, Herbucco, 

 Surat Kupas, Mirzapore. 



5. G. marifimum Tod: Jakko, Manuah, Mit Afifi. 



6. G. maritimum var polycarpum Tod: Bamieh. 



7. G. Brazililiense Macf: Guchard, Creulo. 



The seed, when delivered at Auburn in 1893 and 1894, 

 were badly mixed, rendering it difficult in most instances, to 

 determine which plant represented the local name given on 

 the package. It will thus be noted that in the above seven 

 species and varieties the same local name has been repeated. 

 After gathering the first year's crop the seeds were careful- 

 ly assorted, however, and the classification made as above 

 stated. 



A detailed description of these species is given in accord- 

 ance with "Relazione sulla Cultura dei Cotoni — Monografia 

 del Genere Gossypium" by Agostino Todaro. 



1. Gosypium herbaceum, var microcarpum Tod. Stem erect, 

 covered with long soft hair ; branches spreading, slightly pyramidal ; 

 leaves 3-5 lobed, rarely 7 lobed, lobes rotundate obtuse, apex min- 

 utely mucronate ; stipules linear lanceolate, acuminate very short; 

 peduncle erect and nearly equal to half of peteole ; bracts ovat ■ cor- 

 date, with sharp cut teeth, general outline of bract leaf rotundate, 

 bases united; coralla longer than the bracts, obovate, unequally 

 wedge shaped, yellow, marked at base with purple spots, after flow- 

 ering the outside surface turns reddish ; bolls small ovate, hardly 



