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G. herbaceum L., with ** cotton '' and seeds as in the last, leaf-points 
broad-ovate, flower yellow. 
The first is a native of America, and is known as “ sea-island cotton," 
** Barbadoes cotton,” or ** New Orleans cotton." The cotton of Peru 
is considered to be a variety of this species. 
The second species has long been grown in Egypt, Arabia, and India, 
and produces an especially white cotton. . 
The third species is the one now so extensively grown in the Southern 
States, to which it was introduced from India a little more than a hun- 
dred years ago. During its long cultivation (more than 2600 years) it 
has given rise to a number of marked varieties, of which var. redigiosum 
L., with yellow cotton, is known as ** Nankeen cotton.” 
Fertilization of the Grape. — Dr. M. Kronfeld states that 
although the cultivated grape-vine is usually anemophilous, yet that, 
under certain conditions, it is fertilized by honey bees, especially when 
there is in the same neighborhood an abundance of other plants which 
are visited by bees (Jour. Roy. Micros. Socy. for August). 
Another ‘‘ Ism ” in Botany.—A new word has been invented by 
Dr. Clos, to be applied to the dwarf-condition of plants. He calls it . 
“ nani 
The Annals of Botany.—Number 13 of this excellent botanical 
periodical contains the following papers : 
A monograph of the British Gastromycetes, by George Massee. 
On a change of flowers to tubers in Mymphea lotus var. monstrosa, 
by C. A. Barber. 
On the change of shape exhibited by turgescent pith in water, by 
Anna Bateson. 
Observations on the structure of the nuclei in Peronospora parasitica 
during the formation of the oospore, by Harold W. T. Wager. 
On some recent progress in our knowledge of the anatomy of plants, 
by D. H. Scott. 
The ** Notes" are: A new application of photography to the 
demonstration of certain physiological processes in plants ; double- 
-flowered Ceanothus; on Dr. Macfarlane’s observations on pitchered 
"jnsectivorous plants ; attempts to induce aposporous m: in 
ferns; alily disease in Bermuda; the onion disease i 
hybrid desmid; Vaucheria-galls ; the stomata in ie fruit of bis 
pseudacorus Linn. ; Mystropetalon thomit thomit Harv. 
