EREMASCACEAE IMPERFECTAE 235 



wavy, slowly sinking into the medium. On acid potato and carrot, colony 

 thick, grayish yellow, more or less moist and shining. In maltose broth and 

 in yeast water, sediment developed in 4 days, no turbidity and no pellicle. 

 Growth good at 37° C, no fermentation, gelatin liquefied slowly after 1 month, 

 becoming complete in 2^ months. 



Schizoblastosporion tokioense (Fujii) Dodge, n. comb. 



Mycelohlastanon iohioense Fujii, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 31: 959-983, 15 

 figs. [71-72], 1931. 



Isolated from lesions on toes of young Japanese woman. Lesions began 

 as a depression on the top of the foot near the toe, in time becoming whitish 

 and more visible, progressing between the toes as erythematous vesicles which 

 ruptured. Ulcerations became dry and formed a crust all over the toes. 

 Vesicles and pustules abundant, reddish, covered by crust. Pruritus present. 

 Intraperitoneal injection into mice caused enlargement of the abdomen, then 

 death. 



In crust, organism shows spherical, ovoid, or angular cells, 10-7. 5-5. 5ju, in 

 diameter, mostly thick-walled, some thin-walled and 2.7-3/* in diameter, not 

 colored. Hyphae flexuous. On malt glycerol agar, cells long-ovoid, 10 x 7.5/i,, 

 showing distinct vacuoles and chromatin granules, in chains or dendroid, 

 dichotomous groups, slender, delicate, swollen in places. No spores on Gor- 

 odkova agar. 



On Sabouraud agar in ten days, colony round, with margin sunk into 

 medium and center umbilicate, becoming elevated with radiating wrinkles 

 which start at center or in between but never reach margin, yellow gray above, 

 reverse not colored. Growth best in drier parts. Hyphae seldom penetrate 

 medium. After 20 days, center slightly depressed, radiations reach the margin 

 which also is slightly depressed, surface otherwise flat, colony moist yellowish 

 brown, reverse uncolored, medium not colored. On malt agar, colony 2.5-3 

 cm. in diameter, center slightly depressed, surface furrowed, part wet, part 

 dry, margin comparatively transparent, partly sunk in medium. At the 

 optimum temperature, colony finally 6 cm. in diameter, yellowish white with 

 denticulate margin, center moist, umbilicate, wrinkled, slightly elevated, with 

 short furrows, margin sunken with filaments projecting into medium. On 

 malt glycerol agar, colony round, 2 cm. in diameter, center dry, irregularly 

 wrinkled, elevated with radiating wrinkles. Margin moist. In malt extract, 

 liquid is cloudy with a flocculent sediment. No fermentation of sugars, acid 

 formation with glucose, xylose, and rhamnose. 



PSEUDOMYCODERMA 



Pseudomycoderma Will, Centralbl. Bakt. II, 46: 278-281, 1916. 



The type species is Pseudomycoderma vini Will. 



Cells fusiform, with 1-3 oil globules, shorter cells citriform suggesting 

 those of Pseudosacckaromyces, also small spherical cells with a single oil 

 globule. Pseudomycelium branched, of long slender cells, terminal portions 

 of the branches not forked. Pellicle developing rapidly on malt extract, at 



