GROUPS AND SIM '.('IKS OF (HATS STREPT0M1 CES 



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Figure 23. Various strains of Streptomyces californicus (Reproduced from: Bi 

 Bull. Torrev Botan. Club »2: 111, 1955). 



P. H. ei al. 



Classification Systems of tin- Genus largely those forms that arc now included 

 Streptomyces in the genus Streptomyces. This is true, for 



example, of the fii.-t classification of San- 

 Early Systems of Classification felice (1896), and the subsequenl ones of 



Krainsky (1914) and of Waksman and 



Although the earlier systems of classifica- Curtis ( 1916). Only the more comprehensive 



tion of actinomycetes were also supposed to and more recenl systems are presented 



be concerned with all the forms usually in- here. The earlier ones were given in Chapter 



eluded in this group, they represented 1 of Volume I. 



