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Paper delivered at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 23, 1964.
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Smith, C.E. Plant fibers and civilization— cotton, a case in point. Econ Bot 19, 71–82 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02971190
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