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Conidiophores not distinct from the vegetative mycelium, 
much branched. 
Conidia produced basipetally in long chains from sterigmata, 
also in groups of 1-3 along hyphae, hyaline to olivaceous, 
4-8 w x 4-6, spherical to oval. On potato agar at ordinary 
temperatures colonies brown-black, and partly sterile. On 
steamed potato or carrot the colonies are grey-white and spore 
freely. 
Habitas on fish and meat kept in cold storage. 
Kr. Hgye(6) describes a species of Torula, T. epizoa, upon 
dried salted cod in Norway, causing brown spots on the fish. 
Experiments showed that its growth was much restricted if no 
salt were present in the medium. Its growth was best in fish 
extract containing 10 °% of salt. The colonies found on dried 
fish consisted mainly of a dense layer of chains of spores ab- 
stricted from the mycelium. The present fungus, 7. botryoides, 
shows none of the above characters. On meat in cold’ storage 
the fungus forms greyish-white, rather fluffy patches, and its 
growth in cultures is much restricted if salt is added to the 
medium. Hgye describes a peculiar cellular stroma developed 
by his fungus when grown in cod-extract gelatine containing less 
than 10 %, salt, hyphae being very feebly developed. No such 
mode of germination has been observed in Torula botryoides 
under any conditions. It is clear that the two species are 
distinct. 
W. G. Farlow(s) describes a fungus Oidium (Torula) pul- 
vinatum, also found on the surface of dried cod in America, 
causing brown spots, but his diagnosis is not applicable to 
T. botryoides, as he states that the spores of T. pulvinatum are 
only 3-5:5 in diameter, and 12-15 in a chain, whereas the 
spores of T. botryoides are rather larger, and the chains may be 
much longer or absent. His drawing of a young conidiophore 
bears no resemblance to that of T. botryoides. Oidium (Torula) 
pulvinatum is probably identical with Torula epizoa but the 
diagnosis of these forms is inadequate. 
V. WARDOMYCES ANOMALA n.gen. and n.sp. 
This fungus was isolated once during the course of the in- 
vestigation from a white, slightly woolly patch of mould on one 
of a consignment of skinned Australian rabbits which had been 
condemned on arrival here in consequence of serious contamina- 
I-3nis e hypharum lateribus ortis, hyalinis vel olivascentibus, 4-8 u x 4-64, 
sphaericis vel ovalibus. Coloniae in agaro Solani tuberosi temperie normali 
cultae brunneo-atrae et partim steriles, in Solano cocto et in Dauco cinereo- 
albae et libere sporiferae sunt. 
Hab. Ad carnem in frigidariis asservatam. 
