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a thick sediment at the bottom of the tube. No fermentation, producing acid 

 with glucose and maltose only. Produces an inverted pine tree in gelatin 

 stab, without liquefaction ; egg albumen not digested, milk not coagulated. 



Data secured in my laboratory while this book is in page proof, indicate 

 that this species belongs in 8yringospora (see p. 272). 



Parendomyces Perry! (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Endomyces Perryi Castellani, Arch, de Parasitol. 16: 184-186, 1913. 



Monilia Perryi Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 829, 1913. 



Isolated from samples of tea dust. 



Colony white, slightly acid and fermentation vv^ith fructose and sucrose, 

 acid only with glucose, galactose, maltose; slightly acid with raffinose and 

 inulin. Litmus milk not coagulated, decolorized, slightly acid then alkaline; 

 no action on serum or gelatin. 



Parendomyces Blanchardi (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Endomyces Blanchardi Castellani, Arch, de Parasitol. 16: 184-186, 1913. 



Monilia Blanchardi Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 829, 1913. 



Isolated from tea dust. 



"White, smooth growth on maltose, glucose, and other sugar media. Slight 

 fermentation of glucose, none of other sugars. Acid formed with fructose, 

 maltose, galactose, sucrose; very slightly acid with raffinose and inulin. Milk 

 at first slightly acid, then alkaline. Neither coagulated serum nor gelatin 

 liquefied. 



Parendomyces vaginalis (Mazza & Los Rios) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia vaginalis Mazza & Los Rios. Bol. Inst. Clm. Quirurg. Univ. Buenos 

 Aires, 6: 216-225, 13 figs., 1931, not Escomel. 



Isolated from viscous secretion of vagina in an Argentine woman suffer- 

 ing from vaginitis. Authors unable to follow case to end, although case con- 

 siderably improved by applications of KI.Io, and of Lugol solution and glycerol 

 in equal parts alternating with alkaline washes. Intravenous injection killed 

 rabbit in 50 hours. All of the internal organs showed this species. 



Cells elongate, forming septate mycelium. Occasional blastospores soli- 

 tary at septa. 



On Sabouraud glucose agar, colonies round, of appearance of spots of 

 stearine, viscous, confluent, not very adherent to medium and composed almost 

 exclusively of yeast forms. On Drigalski medium, by puncture, growth on the 

 surface with slight color change. Organism grows well on potato and glyc- 

 erol, producing a white colony without pigmenting the medium. Similar on 

 carrot and glycerol. In plain broth or with glucose, slight turbidity and 

 sediment. Indol test negative. No fermentation with glucose, maltose, mannite, 

 sucrose, dextrin, fructose, dulcite, arabinose, galactose, racemose, raffinose, 

 lactose, or amygdalin. Coagulated human serum slowly liquefied, milk not 

 coagulated, gelatin not liquefied. 



