392 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



string, 85 ; yield and percentage of 

 lint, 89, 144, 213, 218, 221, 238, 239, 

 283, 285, 290, 298, 308, 330; low 

 grade and high yield, 133 ; cleanli- 

 ness essential, 284. See under Floss, 

 also Kidney or Chain Cotton 



Field Selection : see Stock. 



Fiji Islands, cotton of, 45, 70-1, 201, 

 215, 275, 294, 298. See also Poly- 

 nesia 



' Fine Cotton,' 263. 



Flax (linon), had the original meaning 

 of cotton, 10 



Fleeces (eiria), 10, 56 



Fletcher, Mr. Fred., remarks regarding 

 Egyptian cotton cultivation, 225 



Florence Herbarium, 210 



Florida, cottons of, 45, 170-1, 268; 

 ' East Floridas,' 48, 49, 181, 201, 202, 



243, 268, 277 ; Key West, 170-1 

 Floss and fuzz, 55-6 ; in wild species, 



6, 7, 41, 44, 208, 249 ; in cultivated 

 species, 8, 27, 208, 320 ; often called 

 lint, 10, 40, 238, 284-5, 320 ; lengths 

 of, 34-6 ; fuzz but not floss, 7, 43, 61, 

 62, 94 ; fuzzy-seeded cottons, 4, 7-8, 



44, 56, 77, 80, 163-7, 174, 181, 209, 

 217, 245, 248, 278, 319 ; floss but not 

 fuzz (naked or black-seeded cottons), 

 4, 8, 20, 21, 27, 43-4, 56, 152, 227, 



244, 245-6, 248, 251, 257, 259, 260, 



266, 297, 313, 316, 324-5,333; re- 

 movable and non-removable floss, 7, 

 27, 41, 43, 56, 62, 188, 244-6, 251, 257, 



267, 275, 317, 320 ; greenish coloured 

 fuzz (green-seeded cotton), 19, 20, 

 21, 135, 154, 183-4, 186-9, 192, 205, 

 210, 211, 214, 231, 236, 237, 263, 323 ; 

 rust-coloured, red or brown (khaki), 



7, 28, 33, 41, 42, 55, 64, 66, 70, 72, 75, 

 114, 116, 117, 118, 127, 129,137, 140, 

 152, 154, 168, 169, 185, 201, 203, 

 206-7, 211, 214, 221, 224, 232, 233, 

 235, 237, 248, 251, 252, 254, 297, 

 306, 316-7 (generic type), 320 ; silky 

 flosses, 82, 90, 132, 115, 125, 126, 

 149, 150, 169-70, 214, 221, 224, 233, 



235, 236, 238, 250, 257, 266, 275, 

 284-5, 298, 300, 309 ; in FUGOSIA, 

 THESPESIA and GOSSYPIUM, 55 ; 

 in THUEBEEIA, lines the inner wall 

 of capsule, 56 ; white and grey (ash) 

 fuzz, 153, 157, 227, 231, 234, 235, 



236, 237, 238; woolly flosses, 97, 

 108, 112, 150, 152, 205, 211, 224, 227, 

 231, 232, 234, 237, 238; rough floss, 



45, 176, 210 ; wool mixing, cottons 

 suitable for, 110, 210. See under 

 Fibre, Kidney, Seed, <fec. 



Flowers, colour of (red or purple), 64, 

 72, 77, 78, 82, 89, 91-3, 95, 125, 126, 

 127 ; yellow with pink to purple 

 claws, 66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 77, 78, 



79, 94, 97, 108, 124, 128, 129, 131, 

 134, 139, 153, 156, 170, 205, 211, 214, 

 316 ; yellow or white tinged with, pink 

 to purple, 67, 97, 112, 115, 128, 130, 

 131, 135, 168, 170, 184, 201, 205, 206, 

 227, 249, 251, 257, 267, 297 ; claws not 

 possessed of purple spots, 67, 70, 184, 

 201, 205, 211, 227; petals dry into 

 lemon-green in herbarium, 214 



Foliage, shape and texture, 59, 163, 

 326 ; glabrous and semi-glabrous, 88, 

 193-4, 199, 247 ; softly hairy, 59, 88, 

 109, 131, 162, 193, 199, 229, 256 



France, cotton of, 159; Montpelier, 269 ; 

 Beaumont, 300 



Frontispiece, description of, 260 



FUGOSIA, 53, 54, 55; cotton closely 

 allied to, 63 ; species of Gossypium 

 structurally alike, 43 



' Fully Good Middling ' = F.G.M., 47 



Fuzz : see Floss 



Galapagos Islands, cotton of, 43, 63, 67, 

 282, 284 ; Chatham Island, 68 



Gallini (Egyptian) race, origin of, &c., 

 45, 221, 222, 223, 275, 292 



Galloway, Mr. B. T., 102, 194 



Gambia : see Senegambia 



Gametes, 111, 134, 326, 342, 350 



Gangitiki, fine cotton cloth, 12 



Oangri (a Kathiawar cotton), 132 



Gapas cotton, 211 



Garo hill cotton, cultivation, hybridisa- 

 tion, &c., 108, 110, 112, 118, 124, 

 133. See Assam 



Geographical distribution of species : 

 Section I., 63 ; Section II., 77 ; 

 Section III., 165 ; Section IV., 244 ; 

 Section V., 316 ; of two assemblages 

 of cotton, 87-8 ; of forms of G. Nan- 

 king, 122-3 ; distribution of Sea 

 Island, 287 ; and influence of slave 

 traffic on kidney cotton, 311 



Georgia and Georgian cotton, green- 

 seeded cotton obtained from Chelsea 

 in 1732 and grown 1734 in, 19, 186-8, 

 192, 194 ; first sample sent to Eng- 

 land in 1741, 19 ; black seed intro- 

 duced in, 20 ; Uplands of, 192, 200, 

 231-39 ; ' Georgia Cotton,' 195, 279 ; 

 Georgia, Sea Island, or Long Staple 

 Uplands, 195, 234, 239; Georgian 

 cotton of Spruce, 183. See also G. 

 hirsutum, Dharwar and Uplands, &c. 



' Gibson,' trade name, 238 



Gilgit, cotton of, 158, 172 



Gins (saw), 8, 20, 43, 198 ; special, 188, 

 199 ; roller, 284 ; effect of steam gins, 

 329 



Glands and nectaries, number and posi- 

 tion of, &c., 7, 56-9, 61, 62 ; more 



