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strains of this genus in America, although it appears to be fairly common 

 in England where it presents something of a problem in fruit preservation 

 (Olliver and Rendle, 1934) since the ascospores survive the usual canning 

 process. Olliver and Smith's strain, now maintained as NRRL 1125, still 

 produces ascospores abundantly in our hands more than fifteen years after 

 it was first isolated. 



There ap pears_toJi£Ji ttle question but tha i PnrriJnmy ces varioti Bainier 

 and Byssochlamys fulva Olliver and Smith represent coni dial an d^ascospoi-ic 

 ptniBe57i=€speL' lively, of the Same lungus. However, smce no detailed study 

 orgither genus has been made for this Manual, the authors hesitate to com- 

 bine the descriptions or to recognize one species above the other. Since 

 the conidial phase is commonly encountered in the routine examination 

 of saprophytic molds, and since the ascosporic form may be reisolated, we 

 present below a description of the former species taken largely from Thom 

 (1930), and OUiver and Smith's (1933) diagnosis of the latter. 



Thom, in his Monograph (1930), cited several additional species as 

 probably belonging to the genus Paecilomyces, including the following: 



Penicillium arenarium Shaposhnikov and Manteifel. Trans. Sci. Chem.-phar- 



maceut. Inst., Moscow 5: 1-64, figs. 1923. In Russian, 

 raecilomyces aureo-cinnamomeum (Biourge) Thom. See P . aureo-cinnamomeum 

 Biourge, Monogr., La Cellule 33: fasc. 1, pp. 213-214; Col. PI. V, Cart. 61; PI. 

 VIII, fig. 48. 1923. 

 Paecilomyces buret (PoUacci) Thiom, in The Penicillia, p. 548. 1930. 

 Synonym: Penicillium. buret Pollacci, in 1st. Bot. d. R. Unv., Pavia, II ser., 

 18: 128-129. Tav. XXXI, figs. 4-6. 1921; see also paper by Cam- 

 patelli, in Pensiero med., Milano 12: 217-219. 1923. 

 Corollium dermatophaguni Sopp, in Monogr., pp. 99-103, Taf. X, fig. 108, Taf. 



XXIII, fig. 45. 1912. 

 Spicariu Jimetaria ^loesz, in Botanikai Ivoslemenyek 19: 58, fig. 9 (p. 59). 1921. 

 Penicillium flavum El. and Em. Marchal. Bui. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 54 (S->r. 



2T. IV):129. 1921. 

 Paecilomyces mandshuricum (Saito) Thom, in The Penicillia, p. 550. 1930. 

 Synonym: Penicillium tnandshuricum Saito, in South Manchuria Railway 

 Company, Central Laboratory, Report no. 6, pj). 11-12. In 

 Japanese. 

 P. repandum Bainier and Sartory, Bui. Soc. Mycol. France 29: p. 367. 1913. 



Of the above, Paecilomyces buret, P. aureo-cinnamomeum, and P. mand- 

 shuricum were regarded as possibly separable from P. varioti. Limited 

 comparisons, in culture, of strains maintained in our Collection or received 

 from Baarn, under these names, have been made and minor differences in 

 conidial color and colony appearance have been observed. It is question- 

 able, however, whether these differences represent more than different 

 aspects of a very abundant and variable species. 



Since the publication of Thom's Monograph, Kennelly and Grimes (1930) 



