802 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



On plain agar, colony white, center granular, margin striate. On grape 

 juice agar, growth more rapid and medium somewhat darkened. On Sabou- 

 raud agar, colony white, creamy, cerebriform, very adherent, yellowish, finally 

 becoming slightly brownish. Colony similar, but remaining white on conser- 

 vation agar. On human blood agar, growth rapid, slightly brownish. Similar 

 on glycerol agar. On potato and potato glycerol, colony white at first, becom- 

 ing yellowish. On bile potato, colonies prominent, yellowish, surface granular, 

 with depressions finally somewhat brownish. On carrot, beet, banana, sweet po- 

 tato, turnip or manihot, colonies white, eventually becoming slightly brownish, 

 adherent. On gelatin at 17° C, colony white, prominent, without liquefaction; 

 medium becoming brownish. Glucose gelatin finally liquefied. On plain broth, 

 floccose sediment, upper portion of the liquid clear. On glucose broth, a pel- 

 licle is formed, Avhich soon settles to the bottom without breaking up. No 

 fermentation of sugars; acid with glucose, fructose, and m.altose. Milk sup- 

 ports rapid growth and is coagulated. 



Sporotrichum asteroides Splendore, Rev. Soc. Sci. Sao Paulo 3 : 62, 1908 ; 

 Brasil Med. 33: 361-365, 2 pis., 1909. 



Rhino cladium Beurmanni var. asteroides Vuillemin, 1910. 



Sporotrichum Beurmanni var. asteroides, Beurmann & Gougerot, Arch, de 

 Parasitol. 15: 40-45, 1911. 



Rhinotrichum asteroides Verdun, Precis Parasitol. 1912; Verdun & Man- 

 doul, Precis Parasitol. 714, 715, 1924. 



Sporothrix asteroides Davis, Jour. Infect. Uis. 12: 453-458, 1913. 



Rhinocladium asteroides Grandinetti, Contr. Estudo Esporotricose Sao 

 Paulo 53, 1934. 



Found in subcutaneous lesions, in general much as in the European S. Beur- 

 manni and North American ;S'. Schencki (case history and pathology in full in 

 Brasil Med. 33: 361-365, 2 pis., 1909). In experimental lesions, organism regu- 

 larly produces ray-shaped bodies suggesting those seen in Actinomyces hovis, 

 hence the name. 



At first budding forms, then septate hyphae, spores at first isolated and 

 hyaline, lateral as well as terminal, later crowded, often verticillate and dark 

 colored. Optimum temperature about 30° C, organism growing more slowly 

 at lower temperatures. 



Grows on all the common media, but prefers media with glucose and 

 slightly acid. Growth good on slightly acidified rye grains, slower on potato, 

 without pigmentation on the latter. Slowly liquefies gelatin, does not coagu- 

 late milk. Growth superficial on liquid media, leaving the liquid clear. 



Sporotrichum cracoviense Lipinski, Medycyna Doswiadczalna i Spoteczna 

 2: 153-169, 7 figs., 1924. 



Oospora sp. Griitz, Sporotrichosen und verwandte Krankheiten, Handb. 

 Haut- Geschlechtskr. [Jadassohn] 11 : 797-799, 1928. 



