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MORPHOLOGY. 



Bacilli usually aiTanged in pairs, rarely singly. They measure .5 mu 

 in width, and 1.5 mu. in length. 



BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERS. 



This species is a non-liquefying, non-chromogenic, motile, facultative 

 anaerobic bacillus, which grows very well at the room temperature, but 

 not so well at the body temperature. 



On gelatin stab cultures a few scattered colonies appear along the line 

 of inoculation, and a button-like growth on the surface. The gelatin is not 

 liquefied in two weelis. 



On agar streak, a whitish growth follows the line of inoculation. 



On potato the growth is a yellowish, lead-colored one, following the 

 line of inoculation. 



Glucose solutions are not fermented. 



Nitrate solutions are completely reduced to nitrites in three days. 



Milk is coagulated, but remains neutral. 



Other species are now being worked upon, which have been separated 

 from many other leguminous plants, including crimson clover, locust, 

 small white clover, whippoorwill cow pea, black cow pea, and alfalfa. 



A Few Mycological Xotes for July and August, 1900, 

 AVells and Whitley Counties. 



By E. B. Williamson. 



An interest in the doings which go on in fields and woods is natural 

 to everyone, bearing, as all of us do, in our own brains, cells which still 

 retain the impress given them as they developed and multiplied to 

 gradually make man, by the cunning of his intellect, master of his en- 

 vironment. Interest is attracted most easily to those everyday, more con- 

 spicuous and beautiful objects, and those which have never been dan- 

 gerous to man during the period of his later evolution. So at the pres- 

 ent time we have popular illustrated works on birds, butterflies and 



