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Plate II. Diagrammatic representation of the morphology of the sporophores of Streptomyces Re 

 produced by special permission from Ettlinger et al. Arch. Mikrobiol. .'{1:337. 1958). 

 li. Sporophores produce numerous shorl , monopodia! branches on sterile hyphae; S. ramulosus. i. Sporo- 

 phores sympodially branched, forming tufts upon short main axes; S. griseus. k. Sporophores produced 

 upon a long, straighl main axis, monopodially branched with frequent, regular spirals; S fradiae. 1. 

 Sporophores monopodially branched, straighl or slightly wavy; ,S. antibioticus . m. Sporophores mono 

 podially branched along the whole axis with open, irregular spirals: S. erythraeus. a. Sporophores mono 

 podially branched, with narrow . compad spiral.-; S. violaceoniger. o. Sporophores sympodially branched, 

 in the form of trees with a long main axis; S. vii ido<n ties. p. Sporophores monopodially branched, stiff 

 and straighl ; S. i< ru zuelae. 



