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Further Observations on a Filamentous Saprophyte from Wookey Hole Caves
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Further Observations on a Filamentous Saprophyte from Wookey Hole Caves

  • A. J. WILLIS1 

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WORK now completed on this unusual organism, found growing in darkness in rather stagnant water of Wookey Hole Caves, Somerset, has yielded some information additional to that reported earlier1; but the identity of the saprophyte remains unknown.

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  1. Round, F. E., and Willis, A. J., Nature, 178, 215 (1956).

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  2. Willis, A. J., Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelœological Soc., 9, No. 2 (in the press).

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WILLIS, A. Further Observations on a Filamentous Saprophyte from Wookey Hole Caves. Nature 191, 724 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191724a0

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