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included in this study. The other characteristic 
is the presence of multicellular rhizoids. Pre- 
viously, insofar as I know, all authors have 
accepted the rhizoids of Polysiphonia as being 
unicellular. Multicellular rhizoids were observed 
only in P. rhizoidea. 
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