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it may be noted that no indication of the formation of a dense 
aggregation of cells was obtained, as described by Kr. Hoye (6) 
for Torula epizoa, a common fungus on salted cod in Norway. 
Even when sown in fish extract with Io % salt added, the spores 
germinated in the usual manner. 
2. Hyphae. 
The hyphae are hyaline to light olive in colour, septate at 
intervals, the septa being rather difficult to observe. The hyphae 
vary in width from 2-5 p. 
3. Formation of spores. 
The “conidiophores”’ are very variable, and under certain 
conditions may be almost entirely absent. In all cultures the 
Fig. 6. Tovula botryoides, n.sp. a, conidiophore from culture’in liquid fish 
extract, x 1500; 6, conidiophore from culture on steamed potato showing 
method of spore-formation, x 2300. 
spores are formed not only in dense heads on the conidiophores 
but also laterally in small groups of two or three along the 
ordinary hyphae. The “‘conidiophores”’ are never very distinct 
from the vegetative hyphae, and are usually much branched 
(Fig. 6). The ends of the branches of the conidiophores are 
more or less swollen, depending on the conditions of growth. 
On potato chunks at laboratory temperature the ends of the 
conidiophores form pronounced sterigmata, somewhat resem- 
bling those of Penicillium, and from which the conidia are 
abstricted, in long chains, as in Penicillium. On agar slopes at 
