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but the majority are nearer to G. mexicanum. I have accordingly dealt 

 with them collectively under O. mexicanum. 



In M. de Candolle's herbarium, Geneva, the following may be specially 

 mentioned : Cagliari, Thomas, 1836 ; Murray, Jamaica, nn. 72 and 122. 



In the Herbarium of the B. E. P. Calcutta, there are the following 

 among other examples of this cultivated plant : n. 1,750, collected in 

 Bhavnagar, Kathiawar in 1894; n. 1,781, Verawal in 1894; n. 10,513, 

 Dhanodi, Ellichpur in 1894; n. 12,876, Mysore 1899; n. 21,828, Manjri 

 Farm, Poona (called Brazilian cotton) ; and n. 22,011, also from Manjri 

 Farm (called Peruvian cotton). 



Mistake Nomenclature. In 1696 Plukenet described and figured a 



Gossypium (' Aim. Bot.' n. 172, and ' Phyt.' t. 299, f. 1), the original 

 specimens of which may be seen in the British Museum, and have 

 been discussed by me under G. Nanking, p. 119. Linnaeus gave no 

 citation of that plant in his ' Species Plantarum,' but in the 

 ' Systema Naturae,' 1767, n., 462, he seems to have made the 

 mistake, manifest in his herbarium, of confusing a New World hirsute 

 plant, having leaves entire or 3-lobed, with an Old World hirsute 

 species, with leaves 5-lobed. There are other characters that separate 

 these two plants, but it is sufficient for the present to thus indicate 

 the mistake. It follows that G. hirsutum, Linn. Syst. Nat. has to be 

 treated as non. Sp. PL 



In founding the species G. hirsutum, Linnaeus gave in the 2nd ed. 

 of the ' Species Plantarum ' (1763), p. 975, the following description, 

 ' Gossypium foliis trilobis quinquelobisve acutis, caule ramoso hirsuto, 



Miller's Miller, Diet. n. 4.' The species was, therefore, that described by 

 Miller, and the type as already affirmed is of necessity the plant in 

 Miller's Herbarium now incorporated in the Sloane Herbarium (vol. 

 294, folio 45). This is moreover supported by several other specimens, 

 .which were grown either at the Badminton or the Chelsea gardens, 

 some of which in Miller's own handwriting bear the date 1732. 

 Miller's type, as shown above (Plate No. 29 A) bears (in Miller's own 

 handwriting, also reproduced), the description, taken from Tourne- 

 fort (' Inst. rei Herb.' 1719, i., 101). In 1731 Miller published the 

 first edition of his Dictionary. He there refers to a species (n. 2) as 

 follows : ' Xylon Americanum prcBStantissimum semine virescente, ' 

 and thus gave the same descriptive quotation, as shown on his speci- 

 men, except that he incorrectly assigned the original source of infor- 

 mation quoted by Tournefort as being Ligon instead of Lignon. In 



Richard passing it may be mentioned that Eichard Ligon wrote a History of 

 Barbados, in 1657, but makes only the most casual mention of cotton 



