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Pro`to`coc´cus

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1.

(Bot.) A genus of minute unicellular algæ including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).

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On several patches of the snow I found the Protococcus nivalis, or red snow, so well known from the accounts of Arctic navigators.

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