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cies requires low-lying coast tracts for attaining to per- 
fection. Perennial, and yielding, like the rest, a crop 
in the first season. Cultivated largely in the South- 
ern States of North America, also in South Europe, 
North Africa, Queensland, and various other coun 
tries. 
Gossypium herbaceum, L.*—Scinde, Cabul, and 
other parts of tropical and sub-tropical Asia; much 
cultivated in the Mediterranean countries. Peren- 
nial. Leaves short-lobed. Petals yellow. Seeds dis- 
connected ; after removal of the cotton- fiber, gray- 
velvety. Distinguished and illustrated by Parlatore 
as a species ; regarded by Seemann as a variety of G. 
arboreum. Staple longer than in the latter kind, 
white, opaque, not easily seceding. Even this spe- 
cies, though supposed to be herbaceous, will attain 
a height of 12 feet. A variety with tawny fiber fur- 
nishes the Nankin cotton. 
Gossypium hirsutum, L.*—Upland or Short-staple 
Cotton.—Tropical America; cultivated most exten- 
sively in the United States, Southern Europe, and 
many other countries. Perennial. Seeds brownish- 
green, disconnected ; after the removal of the cotton- 
fiber, greenish-velvety. Staple long, white, almost 
of a silky lustre, not easily separable. A portion of 
the Queensland cotton is obtained from this species. 
It neither requires the coast tracts nor the highly- 
attentive culture of G. Barbadense. 
Gossypium religiosum, L.* (G. Peruvianum, Ca- 
van. )—Tropical South America. Kidney Cotton, Pe- 
ruvian or Brazilian Cotton. Leaves long-lobed. Petals 
yellow. Seeds black, connected. The cotton is of a 
very long staple, white, somewhat silky and easily 
