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The species placed in this genus by Castellani belong elsewhere. Ciferri 

 & Redaelli (1934) and Redaelli & Ciferri (1934) have attempted a compara- 

 tive study of several organisms referred to this species, but since none of their 

 organisms seem to agree with the morphology originally described by Vuil- 

 lemin, it is doubtful whether they had the same organism as Vuillemin in his 

 original paper. Among others they had a culture which originally came from 

 Vuillemin, but there were no data to show that it was the strain upon which 

 his original description was based. Their only strain which at all resembled 

 H. stellata was isolated along with Aspergillus and may have also been parasitic 

 on the latter. This strain differed more widely from their other strains than 

 the other strains differed among themselves. If the name H. stellata, should 

 be found to apply to a parasite of Aspergillus sp., then the determination by 

 be found to apply to a parasite of Aspergillus sp., then the determination by 

 cold abscesses, would remain in doubt. 



Hemispora stellata Vuillemin, Bull. Soc. Myc. France 22: 125-130, PI. 7, 

 1906. 



Fig-. 36. — Hemispora stellata. (After Vuillemin 1906.) 



Sporendonema epizoum Ciferri & Redaelli, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 37: 

 167-170, 1934; Redaelli & Ciferri, Atti 1st. Bot. R. Univ. Pavia IV, 5: 145-198, 

 5 figs., 1934, excl. syn., quoad "ceppo Pun." 



Originally described as a parasite of Aspergillus repeiis forming a hyphal 

 mat on the surface of a jar of preserved pears. Subsequently reported from 

 cases of osteoperiosteitis by Gougerot & Caraven (1909, 1910) and from cold 

 abscesses on penis by Beurmann, Clair & Gougerot (1909). Vuillemin identi- 

 fied the organisms in these cases. More recently Fonseca & Area Leao (1927) 

 report it from a sporotrichoid lesion on the arm. Cultures from lesions Avere 

 pathogenic for rabbits, producing periosteitis. Torula epizoa Corda, in Sturm, 

 Deutschl. Fl. Ill, 3: 97-98, PI. 45, 1829, upon which Ciferri & Redaelli base 

 their specific name, was isolated from tallow, and judging from Corda 's figures 

 is not related to the organism under consideration. I find no mention of the 

 species in Corda 's later publications. 



Arthrospores in chains up to 30 or more, subspheric, 2.6-3.5yu. with a 

 fuliginous granular wall except on the facet of insertion, occasionally elongate 

 and barrel-shaped (Fig. 36). Hyphae 2-3/t in diameter, irregularly septate. 



