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of flowering and the character of the flowers arethesame. All the types of 
bolls found among Goghari are also found among Broach. deshi cottons 
(Plate V, fig. 2), and there is no evidence for the statement of Middleton 
that the bolls are globose and larger than those of Broach deshi. But as 
soon as the bolls open the characteristics of the variety appear. These are 
three in number. 
1. The opening of the bolls is strikingly different in Goghari cotton from 
that of B oach deshit. In the latter cotton the edges of a cell of a boll recurve 
when fully open; in Goghari this never occurs. ( Plate III, fig. 1.) 
As a result, the angle between the septa in the shell of the completely 
opened boll is greater in the case of Broach desht than in Goghari. 
(Plate III, fig. 2.) 
2. The kapas in the two cases differs in the ease with which the seeds- 
can be separated from one another. In Goghari, as has been already pointed 
out by Middleton, the lint hairs surrounding each seed separate readily from 
those of the adjoining seeds and the seeds do not, therefore, cling together 
by means of the lint hairs in the manner which is characteristic of Broach 
deshi cotton. This can be seenin Plate IV. The difference is probably due 
to the lint hairs in Goghari being shorter and thicker than in the other 
variety. 
At the same time the lint adheres much more firmly to the seed than in 
Broach deshi cotton. This can be indicated, somewhat roughly, by the relative 
time taken to hand-gin kapas of the two types. 
Goghari Broach deshi 
Hours Minutes Hours Minutes 
Time taken to gin1llb. kapas .. 1 14 0 34 
Time taken to obtain 1lb. lint .. 2 43 1 40 
3. The seed, after ginning, in Goghari cotton usually retains a large 
nu nber of torn lint hairs, showing the force required to separate them from 
the seed. As a result most of the previous writers on the subject, including 
Middleton, have stated that the seed bears more fuzz than is found in the case 
of Broach desht cotton. Precisely the opposite is really the case, and if the 
torn lint hairs are removed by forceps, it is easily seen that the Goghari seed 
really presents an almost clean darkish testa without fuzz. The difference 
can be seen clearly in Plate V, fig. 1. 
These differences render it easy to distinguish in the case of any ripening 
plants, or in the case of any collection of kapas or cotton seed whether we 
have to do with Goghari or Broach deshi cotton, and enable the proporticn of 
