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Acrothecium floccosum Harz, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 44: 124, PI. 4, 

 Fig. 9, 1871 [reprint p. 37]. 



Blast otrichum floccosum Berlese & Voglino, in Saecardo, Sylloge Fungorum 

 4: Additamenta : 376, 1886. 



Dactylium ? floccosum Sartory, Champ. Paras. Homme Anim. 871, 1923. 



Trichophyton sp. Sabouraud, Pratique Dermatol. 4: 497, 1904; Castellani, 

 Brit. Med. Jour. 2: 1277, Fig. 1, 1905. 



Trichophyton intertriginis Sabouraud, Dermatol. Topographique 300, 1905 ; 

 Photinos, Contr. Etude . . . Affect. Cutan . . . Region Inguino-crurale 51, 1 fig., 

 1906. 



Trichophyton inguinale Sabouraud, Arch. Med. Experim. Anat. Path. 19: 

 565-586, 737-766, Pis. 17, 18, 1907. 



Epidennophyton inguinale Sabouraud, Maladies du cuir chevelu 3: 420- 

 444, 1910. 



Trycophyton cruris Castellani, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 11: 262, 1908. 



Epidermophyton cruris Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. 609, 610, 

 1910. 



Trichophyton Castellanii Brooke.* 



Epidermophyton plicarum Nicolau, Ann. Derm. Syphiligr. V, 4: 65-87, 

 Figs. 1-12, 1913. 



Closterosporia inguinalis Grigorakis, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. X, 7: 411, 1925. 



Microsporum {Closterosporia) inguinale Guiart & Grigorakis, Lyon Med. 

 141: 377, 1928. 



Fusoma cruris Vuillemin, C. R. Acad. Sci. 189: 405, 1929. 



Producing eczema marginatum of Hebra who gave the first full clinical 

 description in 1860. It had previously been recognized by Devergie in France 

 as early as 1857, and its mycotic nature described. Kobner in 1864 described 

 mycelium and performed inoculation experiments. His work was confirmed 

 by Pick in 1869. Harz in 1871 first described the elosterospores and gave the 

 fungus a name, although his work was overlooked by subsequent authors until 

 1930. Sabouraud cultivated the organism as early as 1895 and figured it in 

 1904, but it was not until his classic paper in 1907 that the organism was fully 

 and carefully described in culture. Apparently Castellani first encountered 

 the organism in Ceylon in 1905 and first named it in 1908 in ignorance of the 

 work of Harz and of Sabouraud. For a general discussion of eczema margi- 

 natum, see p. 436. In all this early work it should be borne in mind that it 

 is possible that other species of Epidermophyton were involved, as the emphasis 

 was clinical rather than mycologic, but in the absence of proof to the con- 



•Owing to the extremely faulty bibliography of Castellani, I have so far been unable 

 to trace the original description or proposal of the name Trichophyton Castellanii which is 

 variously ascribed to Perry, Ceylon Med. Rept. 1907-08, and to Brooke 1908. However, an 

 organism is described without name in the Internat. Cong. Dermatol. New York 6: 665- 

 667, 1908, which is reported by Castellani, Jour. Trop. Med. H\jg. 11: 262, 266, 267, 1908 

 and Arch. Derm. Syphilis 93: 38, 1908, as the cause of tinea intersecta on arms and trunk. 

 This organism is later referred to Epidermophyton cruris, a synonym of E. floccosum by Cas- 

 tellani, probably wrongly since it was very superficial and without vesiculation. Apparently 

 not cultivated, as the lesions disappeared when the Tamil coolie was scrubbed with soap and 

 water. 



