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(J. heterophylla.) 
Capsule ovate, dark blown, dividing into four equal ovato-lanceolate valves, and discharging 
the numerous 
Seeds and spiral filaments, which are of a fulvous color. 
J. heterophylla was well known to Dillenius, who justly says of it in his description, “Pinnuke 
breviores et obtusius mintisque profunde ac precedents ( J . bidentata:) et sequentis (J. bicuspidata) 
speciei, incisae sunt”. Other authors, however, have considered it as only a variety of J. bidentatu. 
It differs from that plant, in the following particulars. Its mode of growth, as far as I have been 
able to discover, is always in small and straggling patches, even when growing unmixed with 
mosses. Its fructification is far more abundant. Its size is much less. The leaves, though so 
variable in figure, are never, that I am aware of, acutely divided into two equal and strait 
segments. The stipules are less laciniated. The calyx shorter in proportion to its width, 
somewhat less angular, and the mouth more open. Some of the leaves undoubtedly bear a 
considerable affinity with those of J. bidentata S>, and it is probable that Mr. Francis is correct in 
his opinion, in supposing this variety to belong to the present plant. I have, nevertheless, been 
tempted to consider it rather as a varying appearance of the former species, from the circumstances 
of the plant being larger even than the a. of J. bidentata, of the leaves being always emarginate, 
and of the stipules being so much laciniated. 
An examination of authentic specimens of J. heterophylla, which Dr. Schrader communicated to 
Mr. Turner, leaves me no doubt as to the identity of our British plant; and that author describes 
the same stations for it in Germany as those in which it is found with us; “ad truncos arborum, 
imprimis emortuarum ubique fere, baud infrequens occurrit”. The Hallerian synonym, quoted by 
Leers and Weis, I have more reason to think belongs to J. ventricosa (under which species I have 
placed it) than to the present; and I am inclined to the same opinion with regard to the Michehan 
synonym of the latter writer. 
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