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   smooth and bare, and in the former constantìy and penna-nently clothed with a greyish down. To this charaoter we wili unite the lobes of the leaves, ovai, and not triangular, the dimensious geuerally less iu ali the parfcs, and the different quality of the cotton wool, aud we shall then be able fully to distinguish the Gossi/jnitm htrbaccum from the Gos-sypium iudicum, from the Gossypiiuìi Sicimcnsc, aud, in short, from any other species.
   And of the Siamese cottox, he snys:  « When, in consequence of the difiìculties of mari ti me commerce, the greatest exertions were made to promote and to extend the cultivation of cotton in the southern provinces of Europe, it received an extraordinary impulse amongst ourselves; and as, at the same time, there was created our Botanical Garden, to which was entrusteu ihe care of agriculturai matters, with the efficacious co-operation of the contiibutors to the Flora Napolitano, who rotaiued the character of salaried cor-respondents of that rovai establishment, provision was made for procuring whatever might eurich the collection. The collection of tlie different species of cottons was taken into particular consideration, and from ali the provinces there were received different qualities of cotton wool produced in the same, along with the seeds, aud with speeimens of the plants cultivated. Ali of them were thus introduced, and cultivated in the Royal Botanical Garden aforesaid, and then, for the first time, I learnt that, besides the cotton of Apulia, there were cultivated other species and varieties of greater vaine, and as, almost contemporaneously, not a few intelligent speculators in the rural distriets around Ca-stellamnre had undertaken the cultivation on a large scale of that species which they considered the best, it naturally occurred that I directed my particular attention to that species. I have said above, that, following Lasterye, I had kept the name of the white cotton of Siam; now I will add that the same plant was sent to me from Calabria under the name of cotone paesano, or Turkishj from Apulia, under the name of cotone bianco gentile, or also Turkish; furfher, that I received, at the sanie time, from both distriets, va-