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MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



Colonies white, 0.5-2.5 mm. in diameter covered with conidiophores mak- 

 ing little brown star-shaped spots. On sugar media, colony blackish brown, 

 at first smooth and mammillate or irregular and coarsely convoluted, becom- 

 ing powdered with ochraceous spores. Aerobic, not liquefying gelatin. 



Fig. 37. — Hemispora coremiformis. 1, hypha showing septation in lactose broth ; i, S, 5, 

 31, 37, mycelium showing variation on various media ; i, 17, hemispores ; 6, 7, 12-H, SJf, 33, 35, 

 huge terminal cells (chlamydospores [?]) on various media; 8, young filament; 9^ 10, ampuUi- 

 form cells on potato glucose agar; 11, deuteroconidia ; 15, 16, 18-2S, 25, 26, 32, Si, cells on wort 

 agar, showing secretion of a gel ; 27, 28, terminal hemispores ; 29, ascogenous hypha showing- 

 single echinulate ascospores. SO, Adjoining echinulate ascospores formed from hemispore. 3'/. 

 coremium. 56^ hyphae from coremium. 38, Series showing development of echinulate ascospore 

 and disintegration of the ascus. (1-S3, 35-38 X600 ; Si X500.) (After Moore 1935.) 



Hemispora coremiformis Moore, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 21: 1934 [case 

 of Rotter & Pena Chavarria, Arch. Schiffs Tropenhyg. 38: 414, 415, Fig. 10, 

 1934] . 



