ACTINOMYCETEAE 709 



Producing mycetoma pedis. 



No growth on milk; color brick red. A. micetomae. 

 Milk not coagulated; salmon color. A. verrucosus. 

 Milk slowly peptonized after twenty days. 



Acid-fast. A. Sommeri. 



Not acid-fast. A. Madurae. 



Growth on milk not reported, colonies deep red. 



A. iahiensis. 

 No pellicle but some floating colonies which sink before forming 

 pellicle; from lungs. 

 Colonies coral pink. A. Leishmani. 



Colonies flesh or orange red. A. carneus. 



Growth on liquid media unknown. 



Colonies wine red; from erythrasma. A. minutissimus. 



Colonies white with salmon mammillae; from case resembling bu 



bonic plague. A. Jollyi. 



Colonies with yellow center and pink periphery; from mycetoma 

 pedis. A. Freeri. 



Colonies yellow to brown on most media, rarely also reddish on some one or 

 two media. 

 No pellicle on liquid media. 



No growth on gelatin; from sample of vaccine, pathogenic for 



experimental animals. A. Hofmanni. 



Growth on gelatin. 



Substrate blackened on sugar media ; from air. 



A. niger. 

 Substrate not blackened. 



Gelatin very slowly liquefied. 



Growth slow on potato; from mouth. 



A. lingualis. 

 Growth good on potato ; from granuloma. 



A. phenotolerans 

 Growth good on potato ; from cereal dust. 



A. BelUsari. 

 Gelatin not liquefied. 



Serum liquefied; mycetoma. 



A. convoluUos. 

 Serum not liquefied. 



Broth colonies not described; actinomycosis of 



bones. A. serratus. 



Gas produced on broth ; pulmonary infection. 



A. Donnae. 

 No gas on broth; colony on potato reddish; 

 corneal ulcers. 



A. deBerardinis. 

 Floating colonies which are not confluent. 



Gelatin slowly liquefied; cattle farcy. A. farcinicus. 



Growth poor in gelatin; lungs. A. japonicus. 



Pellicle on surface of liquid media. 



Milk coagulated; mycetoma. A. pretorianus. 



Milk digested without coagulation ; lumpy jaw of marsupials. 



A. macrodipodidarum. 



