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EREMASCACEAE IMPERFECTAE 295 



clavate, bearing a chain of blastospores, 3-8 cells long ; blastospores spherical, 

 ellipsoid, or citriform, uniguttulate, hyaline, 3.5-6^ in diameter, or 3.5-6.5 x 

 3-5/x. 



On Sabouraud agar, colony creamy, surface smooth and shining, whitish 

 tending to yellow in age. On Pollacci agar, creamy, but the surface is slightly 

 granular, yellowish becoming brownish. On potato and carrot, creamy whitish, 

 less shining than on agar media. On Raulin's liquid medium at 20° C, slight 

 pellicle and ring with slight sediment. On broth, ring more highly developed, 

 pellicle not reported, sediment without turbidity, glucose and fructose fer- 

 mented (other sugars not reported) ; gelatin liquefied. 



Mycocandida mortifera (Redaelli) Langeron & Talice, Ann. Parasitol. 

 Hum. Comp. 10: 58, 1932. 



Candida mortifera Redaelli. 



Isolated from the lungs. 



Mycelium, septate, 10-20 x 2-2. 5/*; blastospores spherical or ovoid, in 

 chains of 3-6 cells, 4-5/i. in diameter ; clilamydospores abundant in old cultures. 



On carrot agar, colony creamy, light yellowish, convex, margins sinuous. 

 On carrot, colony elevated, center convex, margins lobed, white or slightly 

 cream colored, opaque. Giant colony on malt gelatin (30 days) plane, white 

 or slightly yellowish with three concentric zones and denticulate margins. On 

 malt extract, an incomplete, irregular, semitransparent ring, no pellicle and 

 slight, floccose, powdery sediment. On glucose broth, no ring or pellicle, slight 

 sediment. Glucose, fructose, sucrose, mannite, galactose, and lactose fer- 

 mented ; maltose not fermented ; no reduction of methylene blue ; milk not 

 clotted; gelatin liquefied. 



PSEUDOMONILIA 



Pseudomonilia Geiger, Centralbl. Bakt. II, 27: 97-149, 2 pis., 4 figs., 1910. 



The type species is Pseudomonilia alhomargi^iata Geiger. 



Cell shape variable in young cultures, sprout cells in old cultures ; more or 

 less branched mycelium formed of elongate sprout cells but no true septation ; 

 giant cells common in old cultures. Pellicle well developed, very little sedi- 

 ment; no ascospores, no alcoholic fermentation, sugars variously assimilated; 

 gelatin not liquefied. 



Key to Species 



Milk not coagulated. P. matalensis. 

 Milk coagulated. 



Acid formed in lactose. P. inexpectata. 



Acid formed in sucrose. P. alessandrina. 



Pseudomonilia matalensis (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Oidium mafalense Castellani, Lect. on the Higher Fungi in Relation to 

 Human Pathology. R. Coll. Phys. 1915 ; Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. 

 Med. ed. 3, 1096, 1919. 



