cotton-shrub

The waste cotton-shrub, long useless, disobedient, as the thistle by the wayside, -- have ye not conquered it; made it into beautiful bandana webs; white woven shirts for men; bright-tinted air-garments wherein flit goddesses?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

The waste cotton-shrub, gather its waste white down, spin it, weave it; that, in place of idle litter, there may be folded webs, and the naked skin of man be covered.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

They bear _silk-cotton_, which falls to the ground in November and December, but is not so substantial as that of the cotton-shrub, being rather like the down of thistles.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

The right cotton-shrub grows here also, but not on the sandbank.

A Voyage to New Holland

Here is also a little of the right West India cotton-shrub: but none of the cotton is exported, nor do they make much cloth of it.

A Voyage to New Holland