Campylonema Lahorense. 
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Campylonema Lahorense with the following specific characters :— 
Thallus woolly, bright bluish-green or bluish-brown, terrestrial, 
partly embedded in mud and partly above it; sheath inconspicuous, 
thin and hyaline in the embedded portion, and firm, thick, lamellose, 
tightly adhering, and brown in the exposed portion; filaments 
curved in a more or less semi-circular manner, up to 1£ mm. 
in length; trichomes bluish-green, 6-9/z in diameter, slightly 
constricted at the joints, rarely pseudo-branched, pseudo-branches 
given off singly or in pairs; cells isodiametric or a little longer or 
shorter than the diameter; transverse walls scarcely conspicuous 
in older filaments; heterocysts median or found at intervals 
Fig. 5. A filament showing two median heterocysts. (X 400). 
through the whole length of the filament, rectangular or ellipsoid, 
12-2 If* long and 7-9 /a broad; spores 7-11 /a long and 5-7ju wide, 
formed in a chain within the sheath, with brown thick and smooth 
episporium ; cell-contents coarsely granular. 
Habitat:—On damp lawns and waste grounds at Lahore, India. 
Fig, 6. A filament forming a chain of spores, (x 450). 
REFERENCES TO LITERATURE. 
1. Fritsch, F. E., (’04). Studies on Cyanophycese. New Phytologist, iii, 
No. 4, 1904. 
2. Ghose, S. L.. (T9). The Myxophyceae of Lahore. Journal of Indian 
Botany, Vol. I, No. 1. 1919. 
3. Schmidle, W., (’00). Hedwigia, Bd. XXXIX, p. 181, 1900. 
4. West, G. S., (TO). Cambridge Botanical Handbooks, Vol. 1, p. 181. 
