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responding to fat droplets stained with the Sudan II. With "panoptic" 

 stain, yeast elements blue, hyphae part blue and part purplish red, giving a 

 laminated appearance. 



Pseudomonilia alessandrina (Panayotatou) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia alessandrina Panayotaton, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 33: 17-18, 1930. 



Isolated from the mucopurulent sputum in a case of bronchitis. Medicated 

 with KI. Intravenous injection into rabbit caused generalized infection and 

 finally death. Organism reisolated. 



Cells yeastlike, 3-4/a in diameter. Gram-positive. 



On Sabouraud agar, abundant white growth. Wrinkled colonies on beef 

 agar. Pellicles formed in maltose and sucrose. Acid formation with glu- 

 cose? ["gelose'^'], maltose, sucrose, dextrin, raffinose, galactose, and dulcite. 

 No fermentation of any medium. No indol or HoS formed. Milk acidified and 

 coagulated on fourth day. Coagulated serum and gelatin not liquefied. 



Doubtful Position 



The following species have been so vaguely described that I have not 

 been able to refer them even doubtfully to genera of the Eremascaceae Imper- 

 fectae, or I have been unable to locate a copy of the original descriptions. 



Monilia Botrytis Vuillemin, Champ. Parasit. Homme Anim. 87, 1931, 



Botrytis sp. Auclie & LeDantec, Arch. Med. Exp. I, 6: 853-861, 1894. 



Botrytis pyogenes Fayod, 1894. 



Imperfectly described and not easy to place. Cultures lost. Beurmann 

 & Gougerot, Arch, de Parasitol. 15: 88, 1910, think it is a Sporotrichum. 



Candida pinoysimilis Castellani, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 36: 312, Fig. 37, 

 1933. 



Cryptococcus pinoysimilis Castellani, Med. Press Circular 136: 441, 1933. 



Isolated from the surface of a blastomycetic, verrucoid lesion, patho- 

 genicity doubtful. 



Cells spherical or ovoid, 3.5-7/^. Some hyphae noted. 



On glucose agar, smooth, white. Litmus milk made slightly alkaline, 

 gelatin and serum not liquefied. Sugar fermentation doubtful [reports fer- 

 mentation of glucose, fructose, and maltose in text, denies it in accompanying 

 table] . Acid produced in glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, glycerol, inulin, 

 and perhaps xylose. 



Saccharomyces intertrigos Touraine-Desvaux, Contr. etude des epider- 

 momj^coses a levures . . . These Fac. Med. Paris 203: 1-44, 1923. 



[Unnamed organism] Gougerot & Gancea, Bull. Soc. Derm. Syphiligr. 25: 

 335-339, 1914; Hudelo & Montlaur (1914). 



Cryptococciis de Gougerot et Gancea Ota, Ann. Parasitol. Hum. Comp. 2: 

 43-44, 1924 



Cryptococcus Gougeroti-Ganceae Ota apud Nannizzi, Tratt. Micopat. 

 Umana [Pollacci] 4: 309, 310, 1934. 



