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Key to Species 



Pellicle formed on liquid media. 



Verticils dense, cells nearly spherical. S. albicans. 



Verticils scanty (4-6 cells), cells slightly elongate pointed at one end. 



S. Braulti. 

 No pellicle on liquid media. 

 Gelatin not liquefied. 



From moist folds of skin. 



Colony margin even. S. interdigitalis. 



Colony margin dendroid, sugars fermented. S. cutanea. 



From digestive tract. 



Maltose not fermented. S. Tonge. 



Maltose fermented. s. psilosis. 



Gelatin liquefied. 



Sugars not fermented, from cornea. S. Cavarae. 



Galactose and sucrose fermented. ^S^. Issavi. 



Galactose and sucrose not fermented. S. Negroni. 



S3nnngospora albicans (Robin) Dodge, n. comb 



^porotrichum sp. Griiby, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 14: 634-G35, 1842. 



Oidium albicans Robin, Hist. Nat. Veg-. Paras. 488-513, 1853. 



Stemphylium polymorphum Hallier, Die Pflanzl. Paras, des Menschl. 

 Korpers, 1866. 



Syringospora Rohini Quinquand, Arch. Pliysiol. Norm. Path. 1: 290-305, 

 PI. 8, 1868. 



Saccliaromyces albicans Reess, Sitzungsber. Phys. Med. Soc. Erlangen 

 9: 190-195, 1877. 



Mycoderma vini Grawitz, Deiitsch. Zeitschr. Prakt. Med. 1877: 209-211, 

 220-223, 1877. non alioram. 



MonHia Candida Plant, Beitr. z. Syst. Stellnng d. Soorpilzes, 16 pp., 1885, 

 non Bonorden. 



Dematium albicans Lanrent, Bnll. Soc. Beige Micr. 16: 14, 1890. 



Monilia albicans Zopf, Die Pilze 478-480, 1890. 



Endomyces albicans ,Johan-01sen, Centralbl. Bakt. II, 3: 276, 1897, non 

 Vuillemin. 



Parasaccharomyces albicans Froilano de Mello & Gonzaga Fernandes, Arq. 

 Hig. Pat. Exot. 6: 271-272, 276-277, 1918. 



Myceloblastanon albicans Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Candida albicans Basgal, Contr. Estudo Blastomycoses Pulmonares, 49, 

 1931. 



Mycotorula albicans Langeron & Talice, Ann. Parasitol. Hum. Comp. 10: 

 44, 1932. 



The disease caused by the group of organisms centering about Syringo- 

 spora albicans has been known clinically since the time of Hippocrates as 

 "stomata aphthodea" and Galen "aphtae alba" and ''aphtae infantum." 

 Later it became known as "aphta lactamen" and "aphta lactantium," and 



