CAPSELLA BURSA-PASTORIS. 
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Var. 7.— Macrophylla. Radical leaves thin, pale green, 3in. 
to 6in. long, Jin. to lin. broad, lanceolate or 
ob-lanceolate, entire or toothed, capsule forming an 
isosceles triangle, large, notch deep, lateral margins 
slightly convex, lobes not very divergent. 
Var. 8.— Bifida. Radical leaves thin, scarcely so large as in 
the last, almost entire, capsule large, forming an 
isosceles triangle, notch deep, lateral margins 
straight, lobes widely divergent. 
The annexed cut shows the seven forms of the capsule. 
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For some of the above forms I have adopted names which 
have been already used to represent the same leading 
characters. The names of densifolici , lyrata, hr achy car pa, 
and rub ell afor mis have not been hitherto in use in this genus, 
but they express to some extent the principal features of 
certain extreme forms in my collection. 
In admitting so many as eight distinct forms I have 
simply followed Nature as she appears in the examples before 
me. After sorting these out repeatedly, I find these eight 
extreme types clearly distinguishable, while in the rest the 
various characters seem to be promiscuously combined. 
I think the characters I have given are sufficiently obvious 
to make it easy for other botanists to correlate their speci¬ 
mens, and it would be very instructive to know how the forms 
which may be common in other counties tally with those of 
Leicestershire. One remarkable character seems to be 
deducible from a study of these forms, viz. : that in this 
genus there is some connection between the notching of the 
capsule and the toothing of the leaves. Where the leaves 
are deeply cut the notch of the capsule is comparatively 
shallow, and where the leaves are entire the notch is deep. 
