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very common in tropical countries, without being 

 so generally useful as Crucifers are to us. 



" We now come to several tribes, more or less 

 nearly connected with our common MALLOWS,* but 

 as some of them are wholly tropical, and have 

 very 6 hard names/ I must select particular families 

 for notice, such as the noble-looking cotton-trees f 



THX COTTON PLANT. 



(Gossypium,) 



of the East and West Indies, whose seeds are 



wrapped up in a woolly substance, which is not, 



however, the true cotton of commerce, this being 



* Malva. f Bombftx. 



