PLATE VIII. AN UNHEALTHY PLANT. 



Belonging to a strain which sheds its flowers very readily on any disturbance, this plant, 



while rather short of water, was attacked by the leaf -eating larvae of the cotton-worm. Most 



of the early flowers and bolls had been shed. Note the flowering branch which projects 



farthest to the left, from which the three innermost bolls have all gone. 



