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II. Macroscopic CHARACTERS. 
The fungus does not spore at all well on potato agar at 
ordinary temperatures. The growth is chiefly vegetative, dark 
olive in colour and almost entirely within the medium. On 
other solid media, e.g. steamed carrot or potato, growth is more 
profuse and greyish in colour, and the colonies develop masses 
of spores. The various isolations are uniform in appearance 
under cultural conditions, showing a great contrast to those of 
Sporotrichum carnis and Cladosporium herbarum., 
III. PHystoLOGICAL CHARACTERS. 
The various isolations of this fungus were grown at tem- 
peratures of — 6, 2, 12, 25, 30° C. No growth took place at 25° 
or 30°C. At the ordinary laboratory temperature growth was 
fair but resulted in the formation of few spores upon potato 
agar, the cultures consisting almost entirely of mycelium within 
the agar slants. At 2° C. a copious aerial growth was produced 
upon the same medium, giving the culture a greyish-white 
appearance, whereas at laboratory temperature, the fungus was 
dull brown or black in colour. The fungus formed an abundance 
of spores on the agar cultures at 2° C., these being produced in 
groups of short chains on much branched conidiophores, as well 
as in isolated groups along the hyphae. Growth occurred at 
— 6°C., but was very slow, even slower than in Cladosporium 
herbarum. 
IV. Discussion. 
The systematic position of this fungus is obscure. On fish 
and meat, from which it was originally isolated, it was a greyish- 
white, woolly mould. In cultures on potato agar the colonies 
are brownish at ordinary temperature. In view of this, the 
fungus is considered to belong to the Dematiaceae, a conclusion 
supported by the formation of conidia which are’ hyaline to 
olivaceous in colour. The branched conidiophores with their 
sterigmata bearing spores, seem to be peculiar to this fungus, 
but for the present it is included in the genus Torula. The 
general appearance of the young conidiophores suggests the 
specific name botryoides. The diagnosis is as follows: 
Torula botryoides n.sp.* 
Colonies grey-white to fuscous, woolly, }—-1’’ in diameter. 
Hyphae septate, hyaline to light olive, 2-5 w wide. , 
* Torula botryotdes sp.nov. 
Coloniis cinereo-albis vel fuscis, lanosis, 0-7—2:5 cm. diam., hyphis septatis 
hyalinis vel pallide olivascentibus, 2—5 » latis. Conidiophoris e mycelio haud 
diversis, valde ramosis; conidiis in catenulis e sterigmatibus vel in acervulis 
