Archive image from page 182 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 175 1866, in which the author recognized 7 species, with 8 others in doubt. The other monograph was by Agostino Todaro, published in 1877, in which are described 52 species, with 2 as uncertain. Hamilton sought to avoid confusion by dividing the genus into 3 species, the white seeded, black seeded, and yellow linted, to which he gave the names album
Archive image from page 182 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 175 1866, in which the author recognized 7 species, with 8 others in doubt. The other monograph was by Agostino Todaro, published in 1877, in which are described 52 species, with 2 as uncertain. Hamilton sought to avoid confusion by dividing the genus into 3 species, the white seeded, black seeded, and yellow linted, to which he gave the names album, nigrum, and croceum. A recent publication, Index Kew- ensis, recognizes 42 species, of which but a very few are of economic importance, and mentions 88 others that have been reduced to synonyms, most of them being synonyms of species in common cultivation. The great variability and the tendency to hybridize makeit difficult to determine to which species a given plant may belong. No cultivated plant responds so quickly to ameliorated conditions of soil, climate, and cultivation as the cotton plant, and to this fact is due much of the confusion as Fig. 59.—Sea Island cotton. to species and varieties. Another factor entering into the confusion is the imper- fectly known types that have been described as species. It has been stated that some of the species now widely cultivated are wholly unknown in a wild state, and some of the specimens described by Linnreus were in all probability from plants that had long been in cultivation. The work of establishing the origin of the cul- tivated species has been still further complicated by the exchange of seed from coun- try to country that has been going on for at least four centuries. Among the species recognized to be of more or less economic importance are G-. arboreum, G-. neglectum, G-. brasiliense, G. herbaeeum, , and perhaps a few others. In this country only the herbaceous cottons are cultivated to any extent. Th
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