( J. bicuspidata. ) 
BRITISH JUNGERMANNIiE. 
lie saw, I shall offer no apology for transcribing the whole of his remark. “ In varietate hujus 
(J, bicuspidata ) mense Novemhri et Decembri reperi capitula pulverulenta, qua;, summfe 
aucta, corpuscula oblonga aut obverse ovata tota comprehendit ; quae aliquamdiu in aqufi relicta 
figuram mutaverunt in sphaericam, et, ut distinctb vidi, parvas moleculas subrotundas dimi- 
serunt, non verb magnli copia. Inter alia unum corpusculum post aliquot confinium explo- 
sionem solutum est, et formam quidem retinuit, parvam aliquam moleculam (forth ab alio 
corpusculo profectam), ad latus habens; subitb autem hoc majus corpusculum in motum 
actum atque in longum protrusum est, ita ut illud ex foco perderem, nec amplius reperirem.” 
Schmidel, leones, p. 247. 
Haller’s description, n. 1865, does not so well agree with our plant as his n. 1878, but 
he tells us that the former is the same as Schmidel's plant, Diss. Jung. f. 16. 
Ehrhart’s J. bicuspidata (Crypt. 292) which I have never seen. Dr. Smith assures us, is 
a very different plant from the present, and more like that figured in Engl. Bot. t. 281, 
which I formerly supposed was only a variety of J. bidentata, but which I am now inclined 
to accord with Mr. Francis and Dr. Schrader in considering a distinct species; though very 
closely allied to it. It is J. heterophylla of Schrader’s Systematische Sammlung. 
J. bicuspidata, J. byssacea, J. connivens, and J. curvifolia form a very natural family, 
agreeing in general habit and in their ramification, which has always more or less of a 
stellated appearance, in consequence of the fruit originating from the centre of the plant, 
and the branches diverging on all sides nearly equally. 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
FIG. 
1. A single female plant of J. bicuspidata, natural size 
2. The same magnified 
3. Portion of the stem and leaves 
4. 4. Exterior and interior perichtetial leaves 
5. Calyx longitudinally dissected 
6. Abortive germen 
7. Barren pistillum 
8. Capsule opening and discharging its seeds 
9. Seeds and spiral filaments 
10. Gemmiferous plant, natural size 
11. Extremity of a surculus of the same, magnified 
12. Gemmce 
13. 7 ar. portion of 
14. Leaf of the same 
15. Gemmce of var. /3 
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