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and completely becoming dark brown when the fructifications form, cerebri- 

 form, convoluted. Same on carrot or potato. Acid formation with glycerol, 

 glucose, galactose, sucrose(?), maltose, inulin, starch (slight), but not with 

 mannite, dulcite, dextrin, lactose. When CaCOg is present acetic acid is also 

 formed. 



This variety is doubtfully distinct from the species, as has frequently 

 been pointed out. 



Var. Greconis Dodge, n. var. 



See Mackinnon, Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo, Suppl. Fasc. 5: 1320-1327, 

 1931. 



Agrees with above, but does not acidify sucrose. 



Var. Fioccoi, Dodge, n. var. 



Sporotrichum epigacnim Aschieri, Atti 1st. Bot. R. Univ. Pavia IV 1: 199- 

 222, 8 figs., 2 graphs, 1930. Not Brunaud, Nouv. Fragm. Mycol. II, 11, Bor- 

 deaux, 1888; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 10: 534, 1892. 



Sporotrichosis ease of Fiocco. 



Conidiophores 2.5-4/a in diameter, varying in length with the media, 

 septate, straight or variously contorted, with short lateral branches; spores 

 sessile, 2.5-3/x in diameter, rounded or slightly elongate ; chlamydospores in- 

 tercalary or terminal, spherical, 7-10/x in diameter, or elongate, 7 x 10/a. Conidia 

 solitary or sympodially in small groups on short branches or in whorls, some- 

 times suggesting conditions seen in Beauveria. 



Growth curves are given for 5° intervals between 5° and 30°, showing 

 an optimum at 20°. 



Colonies on Pollacci agar whitish, floccose, smooth becoming rugose, ca- 

 nary yellow in spots. Aschieri reports development of chestnut colonies, moist, 

 surface verrucose covered with white conidial hyphae ; sometimes a sector, 

 completely covered with conidial hyphae and surrounded by a yellow ring. 

 In Saboviraud agar, colony smaller, verrucose, covered with a white layer of 

 mycelium with a yellow margin 3 mm. broad. On potato, colony whitish, 

 covered by a white cottony layer. On carrot, colony similar, but with a slightly 

 yellowish color. On liquid media, a ring developed with a gelatinous mass 

 in the bottom of the tube. 



Var. Oouncilmani (Wolbach) Dodge, n. comb. 



Sporotrichum Councilmani Wolbach, Jour. Med. Res. 36: 327-355, 4 pis., 

 1917. 



Ehinotrichum Councilma7ii Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Rhinocladium Councilmani Grandinetti, Contr. Estudo Esporotricose Sao 

 Paulo 53, 1934. 



Isolated from a lesion in the knee, which followed a wound from a nail 

 in an ash barrel, Boston. Pain developed in one week. Case unimproved 

 after 2 months, with a variety of treatments. Knee joint fixed. In about 5 

 months, pain disappeared, but joint still completely fixed. Pathogenic to 

 rabbits and guinea pigs, giving the typical lesion. 



