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n. - Former term for a division or other category of lower plants coextensive with the class Myxophyceae

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  • In the two last-mentioned characters and in their manner of division the bacteria resemble Schizophyceae (Cyanophyceae or blue-green algae), and the two groups of Schizophyceae...
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