282 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



On malt agar at 25° C. after one day, cells ovoid or slightly elongate, but 

 often spherical 8 x 5/t, thin-walled, solitary or in pairs, sometimes in short 

 chains or small groups. Cells mostly solitary after a week, walls thicker. On 

 carrot, elongate cells also occur, 15 x 4/x, ends rounded, forming longer chains. 

 Blastospores in simple verticils at the septa, often separating soon leaving one 

 or two which elongate to form branches. 



On malt agar, colonies white or slightly .yellowish, smooth, margins defi- 

 nite. On malt extract, no ring or pellicle, but sediment formed. 



Syringospora Hasegawae, Dodge, n. sp. 



Oidium alhicans var. Hasegawa. Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: 1104-1124, 7 

 figs. [86-87], 1928. 



Isolated from three ulcers size of hen's egg on lower leg; clinically re- 

 sembling Zymonema dermatitidis. Pathogenic to mice and guinea pig. 



Cells S-6fi in diameter, thick-walled, spherical, some also ovoid or elongate. 

 Chlamydospores 7.5^. No asci. Conidia at the septa. 



Colony, on malt agar, shows characters of a wild bottom yeast. On sugar 

 agar, produces milky white disc with brownish tone. Fermentation negative. 

 Gelatin liquefied. Milk coagulated, with production of acid. 



Doubtful Position 



Cryptococcus sp. Braafladt, China Med. Jour. 35: 30-35, 1921. 



Isolated from chronic sinuses on breasts of Chinese woman. Breasts removed 

 surgically. In a second case, that of a foreign woman, in which the organism 

 seemed to be the same, there was slight pain in the chest, cough with bloody 

 sputum, dyspnea, and weakness. Cough developed in Chicago before going to 

 the Orient. There is nothing in the article to show which case belongs to the 

 following organism or whether characters of the two strains may not have 

 been confused. 



The early colonies form yeast cells only; later clusters of spherical, gram- 

 positive spores attached to long, slender, gram-negative hypliae containing 

 some gram-positive granules. Still later thicker gram-negative hyphae con- 

 taining spherical or ovoid spores. The transition from yeast cells to hyphae 

 occurs only on solid media and apparently is not reversible. 



Colonies on agar, circular, flat, opalescent, 2-3 mm., after 3 weeks begin- 

 ning to grow aerial hyphae. 



On nutrient broth at 37° C, grayish pellicle, heavy sediment at the bot- 

 tom of the test tube. No pellicle from subcultures. 



The first case suggests Zymonema dermatitidis or AtelosaccJiaromyees 

 hom,inis. 



BLASTODENDRION 



Blasiodendrion Ota, Derm. Woch. 78: 216-264, 1924; Ciferri & Redaelli, 

 Atti 1st. Bot. R. Univ. Pavia III, 2: 129-146, 1925. 



fOidiodendron Robak, Nyt. Mag. Vidensk. 71: 243-255, 1932. 



