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Sunflower. (19) ' Sunflower ' from Max Shaefer, Yazoo City, Miss. I have 

 ventured to reproduce the specimen of this plant photographically 

 (Plate No. 42), sent by Mr. Lyster H. Dewey for my inspection. 

 I made, however, that selection more on the excellence of the 

 botanical specimen than from any idea of its superiority as a stock. 

 The plant is very hairy, all the younger parts being clothed with 

 long spreading white hairs ; leaves 3-5-lobed, the lobes ovate, oblong 

 acuminate, and the sinuses thrown up between, gland below on 

 middle vein distinct, circular, one or more of the other veins often 

 having smaller elongated glands ; inflorescence, short flowering 

 shoots with the flowers mostly extra-axillary ; flowers small, rapidly 

 turning purple, not much longer than the bracteoles; calyx wide, 

 loose, teeth triangular ; bracteoles ovate-rotund, external and internal 

 glands distinct pits, but not protected by bractlets ; seeds large, 

 irregular, matted with greyish white fuzz, and large supply of remark- 

 ably long soft silky floss. This seems a form of G. hirsutum, but has 

 been once or twice doubtless hybridised, possibly with G. mexicanum 

 and again with G. barbadense. 



VIII. BIG BOLL SERIES. Mr. Dewey (I.e.) says ' The Big Boll 

 cottons are grown in all the cotton-growing States. They are some- 

 what late in maturing, and are therefore less popular along the 

 northern border of the cotton-growing region where the seasons are 

 shorter. As a rule, they do not yield a high percentage of lint. The 

 size of the boll varies from 6 to 10 grams in weight.' 



Todd. (20) Todd ' from P. W. Todd, Grantville, Ga. This is a broad- 



leaved plant, only partially hairy, which comes perhaps nearer to 

 G. mexicanum than to any other botanical form. Leaves broad, smooth, 

 hairy on the veins only, lobes 3-5, broad, triangular, acuminate ; 

 flowers large, rapidly turning purple ; peduncles short, furrowed ; calyx 

 relatively small, wide, teeth short ( length of tube), triangular ; 

 bracteoles very large, ovate-rotund, the central 3 to 5 teeth much 

 elongated, glands both external and internal distinct, large and naked; 

 seeds very large, linear oblong, obtuse at both ends, densely coated 

 with white massive fuzz and with a fair amount of medium length of 

 soft white wool. It is a G. mexicanum x hirsutum hybrid. 



Russell. (21) ' Russell ' from J. T. Eussell, Alexander City. In foliage 



this is very much like the last-mentioned form : the leaves are mostly 

 3-lobed, with a pair of angles or minute teeth occasionally making it 

 5-lobed ; flowers medium sized, early turning purple ; calyx wide 

 open cup, with five acute undulations rather than teeth ; peduncle 



