United States. Dept. of Agriculture · [Washington · leaf 72
No. 8 represents portions of the separate cells of the cotton fibre as delineatedin the beautiful drawing of Riessig. The original tubular or cylindrical characterof the line cell is lost, and in desiccating, the walls have collapsed upon oneanother irregularly, which gives the peculiar spiral… … No. 9 from Dr. Ure, best sea island cotton, of which lace and fine muslin aremade. Fibres one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter; tortuous semi-cylinders of uniform size. 7 J SUBSTITUTING FLAX OR HEMP FOR COTTON No. 10. X HL /.I X ■ _
Flax · Hemp · Textile fibers
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