ASYMMETRICA-FASCICULATA 497 



Penicillium bordzilowskii Morotchkovsky (Bui. Sci. Rec. Biol. Univ. Kiev 2: 71, 

 fig. 2. 1936) was described in terms which seem to relate it to P. cyclopium Westling. 

 The tj'pe has not been seen. A translation of the latin diagnosis follows: Colonies at 

 first white, then dark cinereus gray, at length gray-green, irregularly radiate with 

 margin narrow, sterile, white; reverse yellowish, unevenly radiate; conidiophores 

 smooth, erect, septate, 4.0 to 5.5m n diameter, branched ; branches 24 to 27.2/li by 4.5 to 

 b.Qn mostly in three's, somewhat thickened toward the apex; metulae mostly in 

 three's or four's, 10. S to 13.6/i by 3.5 to 3.0^, a little thickened toward the apex; sterig- 

 mata in three's or four's, fusiform 10.8 to 13. 6^ by 2.5 to 2.8;u; conidia globose, 2.5 to 

 2.8ju in diameter, smooth, in chains without connectives; coremia dense, stipes white, 

 800 to 850/1 in height ; sterile hyphae anastomosing. Colonies quickly liquifying 15 per 

 cent gelatin. Habitat : On roots of rotting sugar beets in the Ukraine. 



Penicillium cyclopium Westling var. echinulatum n. var. 



Colonies on Czapek's solution agar essentially duplicating those of the 

 species in rate of growth, conidial color, texture (fig. 127D), and colors in 

 reverse; exudate abundant, clear; penicilli large, up to 50m or more in 

 length, commonly twice or even three-times branched, in general dupli- 

 cating those of the species (fig. 127F); conidiophore walls often granular; 

 metulae and sterigmata as in the species; conidia globose to subglobose, 

 3.5 to 4.5iu, occasionally larger, with walls comparatively heavj^ and con- 

 spicuously rough-echinulate, dark green in mass. 



Colonies on steep and malt agars (fig. 127E) not differing significantly 

 from those of the species, but with conidia of the variety when grown upon 

 malt agar even more conspicuously echinulate than when cultivated on 

 Czapek. 



Varietal description based on NRRL 1151, received in 1940, from G. A. 

 Ledingham, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, as an isolate 

 from a contaminated agar plate. Represented also by NRRL 1153 from 

 the same source, differing only in producing colonies less definitely blue- 

 green, near sage green (Ridgway, PL XLVII). 



The variety differs from the species primarily in the roughness of its 

 conidia, upon which character the varietal name is based. 



Penicillium puherulum Bainier, in Bui. Soc. Mycol. France 23: 16-17; PL 

 IV, figs. 6-12. 1907. See also Thom in .llsberg and Black, U.S.D.A., 

 Bur. Plant Ind., Bui. 270: pp. 12-13. 1913; and Thom, The Penicilha, 

 pp. 271-272, figs. 36 and 37. 1930. 



Colonies on Czapek's solution agar growing more or less restrictedly, 

 attaining a diameter of 3.0 to 3.5 cm. in 2 weeks at room temperature, with 

 surface velvety to somewhat granular, raised and occasionally almost irni- 

 bonate in central areas, with submarginal areas radiately wrinkled, azonate 

 during the rapidly growing period but becoming more or less zonate in age 

 and often showing a thin, spreading marginal area up to 1 cm. in width, 



