The present contribution is an analysis of the desmid-flora in the Ozé district, Central Japan. Some systematic accounts have already been made by the present writer (Hirano, 1942, 1943, 1948). Of the 136 species recorded from the Ozégahara moor of the district, 40 common members (Table I) are those which are widely distributed in
Sphagnum-moors of other mountainous regions. The other 96 are, on the contrary, those which are found either in the marginal regions of Lakes Ozé-numa and Jiuèmon-ike in the district or in swamps of other districts. The former members are marked with two asterisks (
**) in Table IV that contains all the members occurred in Lake Ozé-numa. This is a volcanic dammed lake, the common species found there being given in Table IV in marking with an asterisk. In a small lake Jiuémon-ike west of Ozé-numa, there are found 51 species of desmids, 25 of which occur also in the marginal regions of Ozé-numa, as shown in Table IV in marking with three asterisks (
***). These facts seem to show the complexity in succession of the desmid-flora from Lake to moor.
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