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2i6 ZYGNEMATACEAE<br />

United States: Illinois, Charleston and Lerna.<br />

Austria, Lunz.<br />

248. Spirogyra insignis (Hassall) Kiitzing 1849. Species Algarum,<br />

p. 438.<br />

Vegetative cells 39-42 m x 150-590/1, with replicate end walls; 2 to 4<br />

(usually 3) chromatophores, making .5 to 1.5 turns; conjugation scalar-<br />

iform and lateral; tubes formed by both gametangia; fertile cells<br />

shortened and inflated; zygospores ellipsoid, 40-48 /^ x 60-128 m; median<br />

spore wall yellow-brown, smooth. (PI. XLI, Fig. 17.)<br />

United States: Iowa; Illinois.<br />

Widely reported from Europe; China, Nanking and Szechwan.<br />

249. Spirogyra fallax (Hansgirg) Wille 1900. Nyt Magaz. /.<br />

Naturw. 38, p. 16. Hansgirg. Hedivigia. 27, p. 253.<br />

1888 (as S. insignis var. fallax).<br />

Vegetative cells 36-45 ft x 80-165 as with replicate end walls; 3 to 4<br />

chromatophores, straight, or making .5 to 1.5 turns in the cell; conjuga-<br />

tion scalariform; tubes formed by both cells; fertile cells inflated to<br />

48-75 m; zygospores ellipsoid, 45-60/1 x 75-1 20 /x; median spore wall<br />

brown, smooth. (PI. XXXVIII, Fig. 13.)<br />

United States: Massachusetts.<br />

Czechoslovakia. See note under S. inconstans, Number 252.<br />

250. Spirogyra wangi Li 1933. Ohio Jour. Sci. 33, p. 153, PL i,<br />

Figs. 7-8.<br />

Vegetative cells 30-32/^1 x 150-350 as with replicate end walls; 2 to 3<br />

chromatophores, making 1.5 to 4.5 turns; conjugation scalariform; tubes<br />

formed by both gametangia; fertile cells inflated toward the middle, up<br />

to 72 ,u; zygospores ellipsoid, 60-64 /x ^ 112-124/^; median spore wall<br />

smooth, yellow. (PI. XXXVIII, Figs. 14-15.)<br />

China, Hangchow, 1930.<br />

251. Spirogyra acanthophora (Skuja) Czurda 1932. Siisstvasser-<br />

fiora Mitteleuropa. 9, p. 160. Skuja. Acta Horti Bot. Univ.<br />

Latviensis. 3, p. 114. 1928 (as S. ivillei var. acanthophora).<br />

Vegetative cells 30-38 /.a x 75-350/1, with replicate end walls; 3 to 4<br />

chromatophores, making .5 to 1.5 turns in the cell; conjugation scalar-<br />

iform; tubes formed by both gametangia; receptive gametangia inflated<br />

to 50-70 /J.; zygospores ellipsoid, 42-60 /x x 80-1 40 /x; median wall irreg-<br />

ularly spinose-reticulate, yellow-brcjwn. (Pi. XXXVIIl, Figs. 16-17.)<br />

Latvia, Kemeri.<br />

This species differs from the next (No. 252) in the more prominent<br />

spines on the reticulum of the median spore wall, and in the decreased<br />

reflexing of conjugating gametangia.

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