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Pathogenic for mice but not for larger laboratory animals except by 

 injection, which reproduced lesion on tongue of rabbit. 



Cells spherical, 4-8/* in diameter, or elongate, 12-17 x 6/x, sometimes form- 

 ing chains of up to 10 cells. Spores perhaps present, but not definitely demon- 

 strated. Gueguen reports that, in old cultures, cells are 4-5/a in diameter, with 

 small ovoid protrusions attached to the mother cell by fine pedicels. Some 

 cells have no more than 4-5 such protrusions, while the remainder of the cell 

 content divides into 5 or 6 unequal masses grouped at the periphery, each mass 

 surrounded by its own wall. Best growth at 25°-35° C, growth slow above 

 40° C., ceases at 42° C. 



On glucose agar, Sabouraud agar, or glucose gelatin, growth white, 

 creamy, shining, or slightly dull, tomentose. Colonies on potato thin, yellow- 

 ish, brown, dry, dull, potato finally assuming same color as culture ; on 

 potato glycerol, creamy, growth better; on carrot, colonies small, punctiform, 

 white. On gelatin, small yellowish white colonies with arborizations in stabs. 

 Growth slow on meat broths in the absence of glycerol or glucose, very good 

 in malt extract, juice of apples, pears, or grapes, with slight pellicle and ring 

 and a turbidity which settles, leaving a thickened gray pellicle and sediment. 

 Glucose, fructose, galactose, maltose, sucrose, and dextrin fermented. No 

 action with mannite or lactose. No action on milk. Gelatin and coagulated 

 serum not liquefied. 



Castellania parakrusei (Castellani & Chalmers) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia parakrusei Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 810, 1913. 



Mycelohlastanon parakrusei Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Isolated from sputum. 



Acid and fermentation with glucose and fructose. No action on other 

 sugars. Milk coagulated. Pellicle on broth. 



Castellania nitida (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Endomyces pseudotropicalis C Castellani, Centralbl. Bakt. I, 58: 236-238, 

 1911, non al. 



Endomyces nitidus Castellani, Brit. Med. Jour. 2: 1208-1212, 1912. 



Monilia nitida Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 826, 1913. 



Mycelohlastanon nitidum Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Candida nitida Basgal, Contr. Estudo Blastomycoses Pulmonares, 50, 1931. 



Isolated from sputum in ease of bronchomycosis. 



Colony white, shining, thin pellicle on broth. Acid and fermentation Avith 

 glucose and fructose ; acid only with maltose, galactose, sucrose, lactose, man- 

 nite ; slight acid with dextrin and raffinose. Milk coagulated. 



Castellania Orticoni Dodge, n. sp. 



Cryptococcus sp. Sartory & Orticoni, Rev. Path. Comp. 14: 174-176, 1914. 



Isolated from grayish superficial lesions in the mouth. Pathogenic to 

 rabbit and guinea pig. 



Cells ovoid, 5-11 x 4/a, sprouting. Optimum temperature for growth on 

 carrot 22°-30° C, no growth above 39° C. On peptoglycerol broth, optimum 

 temperature is 26°-28° C. 



