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Plate 1
Cotton. Seeds. & young plants.

1. Seed of the Sea Island, long staple or black seed Cotton.  2. green seed variety. perfect & 
cut open longitudinally.  to exhibit the enclosed cotyledons (or seed leaves) & embryo plant
3.  Gray seed variety.  4  A seed cut open to exhibit cotyledons as folded up in the 
outer case. with the radicle or root protruding. & ready to enter the earth.  5  Cotyledons or
lobes of the seed.  as developing themselves from the outer case or covering. with the radicle
or root penetrating the soil. 6. Cotyledons. as perfectly free from the outer covering. &
as yet uncolored. by exposure to air. & light. 7 Cotyledons colored. with the two first true
leaves. (& future plant) appearing between them 8 Single cotyledon with venation.
Note. when cotton seed is sown or placed upon damp earth,  it first swells by [illegible] moisture
The radicle of future root breaks out of the "hilum" or scar. (see fig 4) and penetrates into the
soil.  the cotyledons or lobes of the seed supplying the young plant with nourishment are
fully developed from out of the outer case of the seed. (see fig 6.) and finally between these arise
the first two true leaves (see fig 7) which are of a shape differing from the older leaves
not being so fully developed.  as to shape, size, & color.
Young plants at this period of their growth are subject to the rot of footstalk (improperly 
called soreshin) (pl 2 fig 10) to the attacks of cotton lice (see plate 6 fig 3) & of the different
species of cut worms Agrolidae. 
T. Glover
        