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5044. Sanseviera zeylanica Moorva, Bowstring Hemp. East Indies. 

 5337. Sanseviera Guineensis. Jamaica. 



5205. Saxifraga Virginica. (Mat.) Kew Gardens. 



5047. Seemay Kathalay Fiber, Fourcroya gigantea. Madras. 

 24237. Sesbania sp. (Stems.) Arizona. 



5206. Sesbania aculeata var. paludosa. (Mat.) India. 

 5127. Sida tiliwfolia, King Ma. China. 



5297. Silk Cotton [f], Bombax sp. (?). Mexico. 



5221. Silk Cotton, JEriodendron anfractuosum. Java. 



5336. Silk Grass, Fourcroya Gubensis. Jamaica. 



5340. Silk Grass, BromeUa Karatas. Jamaica. 



5104. Stipa tenacissima, Esparto. Spain. 



5105. SHpa tenaeissiina, Esparto. Spain. 



5106. Stipa tenacissima, Esparto. Spain. 

 5229. Straw, wild. (Rope.) Hayti. 



5043. Sunn, Grotolaria juncea. East Indies. 



5102. Sylhet, Phrynium dichotomum. (Matting of flower stems.) 



5275. Talipot Palm, Gorypha umbraculifera. (Hat.) Philippine Islands. 



5179. Tea-weed Fiber. Mississippi. 



5345. Trumpet Bark, Gecropia peltata. Jamaica. 



5053. Urena lobata. East Indies. 



5008. Washingtonia Jilijira, Palmas. California. 



5270. Willow Twigs. California. 



Wool. See special list of wools. 



5259. Xerophyllum tenax, Grass. Washington Territory. 



5232. Yta Palm, Mariritia aculeata. Pernambuco. 



5343. Yucca aloifoUa. Jamaica. 



5302. Yucca alata. California. 

 21066. Yucca baccata. (Fine fiber.) California. 

 51065. Yucca baccata. (Coarse fiber.) California. 



5032. Yucca Whippleyi. California. 



Among the special exhibits illustrating the preparation and uses of 

 vegetable fibers there is a collection of twenty-two specimens of jute, 

 grown in Mississippi, showing the fiber in successive stages of prepa- 

 ration from the unretted bark to the fiber as used in the finer goods. 

 This series was the gift of the Hon. W. W. Stone, of Stoneville, Miss. 



The series above-mentioned is well supplemented by another presented 

 by Mr. Appleton Sturgis, of New York, which shows a well-made sec- 

 tion of a bale of jute butts from Calcutta, and the stages passed through 

 by the fiber in the manufacture of gunny cloth. 



The various uses of the esparto grass are shown in a good series of 

 specimens from Spain, which was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibi- 

 tion in Philadelphia. 



The well-known China-grass cloth is well represented in the collec- 

 tions ; the number of specimens on exhibition is twenty-seven. 



