400 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



Mipe, cotton of, 154 



Hit afifi, Egyptian vern. name for 

 special race of, 220-1, 224 ; 45, 166, 

 182, 198, 214-5, 223, 293 ; cotton of 

 to-day, 185 ; botanical description of, 

 224 ; in India, 225. See also under 

 G. peruvianum 



Mitampur : see Gujarat 



' Mobile,' trade name, 45 



Mozambique, cultivation of cotton in, 

 197-8, 293 



Mokho, West African vern. name, 177-8 



Moisture and humidity : see under 

 Fibre 



Mogul Country, seed from, in 1621, 100 



Molango cotton, met with in India, 

 172 ; origin of, 182 ; botanical com- 

 parison with moqui, 182 ; ' Molango,' 

 description of, 231 ; bractlets seen in, 

 242. See under G. mexicanum 



Molokai, wild cotton of Sandwich 

 Islands : see Hawaii 



Mombassa (N.) : see E. Africa 



Montego Bay : see Jamaica 



Montpelier : see France 



' Moon,' trade name, 239 



Moqui of Arizona, 181 ; comparison of 

 Egyptian and Arizona forms, 181 ; 

 used in crossing Sea Island, 292 



Moradabad : see Agra and Oudh 



' Morris ' cotton, trade name, 238 



Mosaic hybrid : see Hybrids 



Moss, Mr., 276 



Moto mathio : Ind. vern. name, 131 



Mowee : see Hawaii 



Mummy cloth, controversy regarding, 

 25 



Murasaki : see Japan 



Muslin and muslin cottons, manufac- 

 ture of, in England, 20 ; far-famed 

 Dacca, 12, 102-7 ; East Gujarat, 136 ; 

 Masulipatam, 12 ; ' Muselin ' cottons 

 of Bohr, 183 ; best form of ' Muselin,' 

 189 ; four kinds, 189. See Industry 



Mutations and Variations : see App. 

 B under De Vries 



Muxinha cotton of Angola, 311 



' Myers,' trade name, 238 



Mysore and Coorg, cottons of, 126, 149 



Nadam (or yerra) cotton, 128-31, 132, 

 137; yerra/patti or errapathi chettu, 

 names for special races of, 130 ; com- 

 pared with Bani, 131-2, See Madras 

 Cottons 



Nagasaki : see Japan 



Nagpur and Berar cottons, 46, 109, 111, 

 113, 124, 131-34, 336-7 ; Saugor, 98. 

 See also Bani, Hinganghat, Hybrids 

 and Hybridisation, Oomras, &c. 



Naked Cotton ' of the French, 262 



Names, priority and uniformity in, 2, 

 5, 300-1 ; misleading, 4 ; reckless 

 naming, 5 ; earliest retained for each 

 species, 6; enigma of, 7 ; classic, 10 ; 

 confusion of, 12 ; naming of races 

 and hybrids, 230 



'Nankeen' (Nankin) or brown -coloured 

 (khaki), a term assigned to cottons of 

 several species. See under China, 

 also Floss 



Naples cotton : see Europe 



Natal : see S. Africa 



Navsari cotton : see Gujarat 



N'Dargua cotton, description and 

 geographical position of, 177 ; culti- 

 vated state of, 178 ; presumably G. 

 punctatum, 178 ; of Senegal a proba- 

 ble ancestor of ' Hindi Weed,' 182 



Nectaries : see Glands 



Negro Country, cotton of, 173, 210; 

 value and trade in, 175 ; of Senegal, 

 212-13 ; slave trade influence on 

 cotton, 18, 311 



NEOCOSMOSPOBA VASINFECTA, 330 



New Caledonia, cottons of, 249, 251, 

 252 



New Granada. See Columbia 



New Guinea (German), 255 



New Orleans and New Orleans cotton, 

 45, 183, 198-9, 241, 251, 253, 277. 

 See Dharwar (G. hirsutum), also 

 Uplands and Georgian 



New World cotton and cotton goods, 

 60, 209 ; cotton carried to, in seven- 

 teenth century, 81 ; first illustration 

 of, 259. See also Old World 



New York Cotton Exchange, 49 



Ngamiland (Kwebe hills), cotton of, 153 



N'Guine cotton, description of, 177-8; 

 probably G. purpurascens, 178 



Nicaragua, cotton of, 228 



Nicobar Islands, cotton of, 144 



Niger and Nigeria, cotton of, 92, 154, 

 161, 169, 170, 171, 179-180, 215, 228 



Nilghiri Hills, cotton of, 126, 252 



Nimari cotton, 112 



Noel, Sir Martin, dispute with East 

 India Company, 12 



'Norfolks,' trade name, 45 



Nubische Kuste, cotton of, 251 



Nun's cotton, 101, 120, 144, 189, 201 



Nurdki cotton, 112 



Nurma (narma and nurmah) cotton, 

 82, 91, 92, 95, 98, 105; hybrids, 

 336-7 



Nyam Nyam cotton, 223 ; of Mr. Broun, 

 298, 312 



Nyassaland : see East Africa 



Oahu cotton : see Hawaii 

 ' Oak,' trade name, 238 



