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Maltosed sabouraud — Very weak development ; colours idem. 

 Endo's medium — Idem as on glucosed sabouraud. 

 Lemon — 48 hours, weak development, clear blue ; 3 days, greyish 

 blue ; I week, deep blue with a greyish tone ; 2 to 3 weeks, idem. 



Bread paste — 48 hours, weak development, blue greyish green ; 



1 week, idem ; 4 days, clear green ; 2 to 3 weeks, dirty green. 



Banana — 3 days blue outremer. good development, 5 days, idem ; 



2 to 3 weeks idem with a greenish tone. 



Bice ; paste — ■! week, poor development, of white slightly green 

 colour ; 2 to 3 weeks, good development of the same colour. 



Carrot — 3 days, good development, yellowish green ; 5 days, idem ; 

 2 to 3 weeks, green with yellowish tone. 



Potato — 3 days s good development, white slightly green ; 1 week, 

 green straw colour ; 2 to 3 weeks, dark green. 



Glycerinated potato — 10 days, poor development, white colonies ; 

 2 weeks, idem; 3 weeks slightly blue greyish ; 1 month, deep grey. 



Coagulated milk — The culture is blue slightly greenish, the 

 greenish tone becoming predominant after 2 to 3 weeks. 



Pineapple juice — 48 hours, clear blue, isolated colonies fluctuat- 

 ing on the surface of the liquid ; 3 days, idem, the colour being the 

 same but with a slight greyish tone ; 5 days, the colonies become 

 confluent and form a very consistent membrane ; 1 week, the same 

 colour, the bluish tone becoming more pronounced ; 10 days, greyish 

 blue, 2 to 3 weeks, greyish to gris souris and the bluish tone changing 

 into the greenish. 



Mango juice — The colour of the culture is the same as in the pine, 

 apple juiue, but the culture shows the form of a ring, strongly adher- 

 ing to the wall of the tube. 



Bouillon — 48 hours, minute isolated colonies of white bluish 

 colour, becoming greyish blue after 1 week and finally dark grey. 



Glucosed bouillon — Idem, the colonies being more abundant and 

 confluent and forming a membrane on the surface of the liquid. 



Maltosed bouillon — 48 hours, greyish blue membrane ; 4 days, 

 idem, the vegetative mycelium (inferior face) having the appearance 

 of a gelatinous mass and a brownish yellow colour ; 4 days, the grey 

 tone becomes more pronounced ; 3 weeks, dark grey with greenish 

 tone. 



Straw bouillon — idem without the final greenish tone. 



Bouillon of vegetables — Idem, the mass of the vegetative mycelium 

 has the same gelatinous appearance as in the maltosed bouillon. 



Inoculations — One rabbit and one guinea-pig inoculated by intra- 

 vonous injection remained healthy till the end of the experiment. 



On account of the variations of the colour in the cultures of this 



