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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of Useful Fiber Plants of the World: Including the Structural and Economic Classifications of Fibers The fiber economists find a most interesting study in these native forms. The native or aboriginal American fibers have never before been brought together in any way approaching a complete list, and in this particular especially it is hoped that the work will prove a valuable contribution to the literature of the economic botany of our country. In like manner, with the aid of Mexican and South American botanists and observers, the Central and South American lists have been greatly augmented. The Australian list is very full, and with the list of fibers of India, which have been so carefully worked up by Dr. George Watt in the Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, and the lists of the more commonly known species from other portions of the globe, the work in its entirety presents a more complete catalogue of the world's useful fibers than doubtless has before been brought together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.