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nii 



III 



-^ 4 6 iO 20 30 



Fig. II. Diastase in the culture solution. Starch 0.5%; (d = days). 



tinuous pellicle but there were large openings in it. We may safely 

 take this séries to be one, in which less than 0.5% of foodmaterial 

 lias been given. The most remarkable fact about it js, that in the 

 curve there is not even the shghtest indication of a fall. 



I intended to use this séries for a spécial purpose, rather outside 

 the range of the présent subject; that is why I did not take ail the 

 usual observations. I am therefore not quite sure, that the dry 

 weight on the 13 ' day (which was the oniy weight recorded, 

 exsept that of the 32 day on which it was 95 ni.Gr.) is really the 

 maximum weight. It is however highly improbable that it is far 

 out. Although this séries was inoculated with conidia from a culture 

 on starch solution of 0.5*5*0. from a culture solution of the same 

 composition therefore, we find that the production of diastase is 

 considerably weaker than that -in séries A A. The cause of this 

 may be found m the scanty development of mycélium, but I can 

 say nothing definite about this. 



Starch O.lo;,-r Glucose 4°o (9—13; 902) fig. 12 and 12 A. 

 ( ) table 7. 



The curve for the production of diastase in the culture solution 

 again shows the same characteristics as the curve of glucose 4^o etc. 



