INDEX 



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Bacillus apiovorus Wormald, 67, 239, 



241, 244, 245, 246, 474 

 Bacillus aroideae Townsend, 240, 247, 

 248 

 behavior in milk, 250 

 Bacillus atrosepticus Van Hall, 265, 266 

 Bacillus carotovorus L. R. Jones, (See 

 also soft rot of carrot), 223 

 acids produced by, 230, 238 

 attacks young green shoots of car- 

 rot, 237 

 behavior in various media, 230, 237 

 behavior in the tissues, 223, 224 

 cause of soft rot of carrot, 223 

 colonies of, 



on agar, 232, 236 

 on gelatin, 239, 240, 269, 276 

 color on media, 230 

 compared with other soft rot 



organisms, 239, 240 

 disintegration of cell-wall, 232 

 dwarfing of plants infected with, 



49, 228 

 flagella of, 234 

 gas formed, 230, 237, 240 

 gelatin liquefied, 234 

 grape sugar, harmful to, 251 

 host plants, 223, 225, 226, 229 

 inoculation experiments, 241 

 involution forms, 238 

 literature, 252 

 means of gaining entrance to the 



plant, 223 

 method of isolating from the tis- 

 sues, 241 

 milk curdled, 234 

 milk-rice, 246 

 nitrates reduced, 230 

 range of cultural characters in 



doubt, 232-241 

 resemblance to other organisms, 



223, 229, 240 

 sensitiveness to drying, 36, 147, 231 

 sensitiveness to sunlight, 36, 231 

 swelling of cell-wall, 251 

 technical description, 230 

 temperature relations, 231, 238 

 tolerates sodium chlorid, 238 

 type of disease caused by, 223 

 virulence not lost readily, 229 



Bacillus carriers, 33 



Bacillus coH Esch., 54, 355, 356, 408, 474 



Bacillus cubonianus Macch., 342, 344, 



346 

 Bacillus delphini EFS, 474 

 Bacillus gossypina Stedman, 314 

 Bacillus harai Hori and Miyake, 53, 474 

 Bacillus mangifera Doidge, 473 

 figures illustrating, 3, 9 

 most susceptible age of host for, 8 

 Bacillus melanogenes Pethybr. and 



Murphy, 265, 268 

 Bacillus melonis Giddings, 240 

 Bacillus musae Rorer, 473 



figure illustrating effect of, 11 

 tvpe of infection, 10 

 Bacillus oleae (Arch.) Trev., 394, 396 

 Bacillus oleae-tuberculosis Savastano, 



394 

 Bacillus oleraceae Harrison, 239 

 Bacillus omnivorus Van Hall, 239 

 Bacillus phytophthorus Appel (See also 

 Bacterial black rot of potato), 

 253 

 acid and gas forming, 257, 260, 263 

 alcohol, effect of, 260 

 appearance of tissues infected with, 



255 

 behavior in various media, ^257, 260 

 cause of potato black rot, 257 

 colonies of, 269, 270, 271, 272 

 distortion of infected potato plants, 



49 

 dry air sensitive, 257, 278 

 flagella of, 267 

 gelatin liquefied, 257 

 inoculation experiments, 267 

 inosite, gas from, 263 

 lactose, gas from, 263 

 life in soil, 34 

 literature, 278 

 mannit, gas from, 263 

 method of isolating pure culture of, 



263, 266 

 milk curdling, 257 

 milk-rice, 246, 260 

 nitrate reducing, 257 

 non-growth in Cohn's solution, 260 

 non-parasitic coccus accompany- 

 ing, 263 



