348 A SLIME UACTEllIUM FROM THE PEACH, ETC.. 



arabin (as I shall show in a subsequent paper), and of course it 

 liolcls for the soluble arabin. I do not wish it to be inferred that 

 this behaviour is peculiar to the arabin gums. It is not, for as 

 I have shown, the gum of Jiact. sacchari is dissolved by the treat- 

 ment and this, as I shall show in a future paper, is a gelatine 

 orum. But on account of the divergence from the recognised 

 members of the group I have not included this paper in my series 

 of papers upon " The Bacterial Origin of the Gums of the Arabin 

 Group." 



