CH. xii.] VIBRIO. 183 



(b) Vibrio serpens. This is also a septic organism, much 

 thinner and longer than the previous one, more wavy, as 

 a rule, curved into a single or double wave. The length 



FIG. 106 VIBRIO SERPENS IN SWARMS (AFTER COHN). 



varies between 0*011 and 0*025 mm - I* * s motile ; and also 

 forms continuous masses, the individuals interlacing in all 

 directions. 



NOTE. Many of the longer pathogenic bacilli, as bacillus of anthrax, 

 of symptomatic charbon, of tubercle, of ulcerative stomatitis, &c., 

 occasionally present themselves in forms closely resembling vibriones. 



