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The conidia are dark brown to black in colour, and vary in 
shape from sub-spherical to oval, with slightly pointed ends. 
They are 5-8 x 4-6 in size, with smooth walls which are 
almost opaque. The fungus grows well on the usual artificial 
media at ordinary temperature, but although isolated from 
rabbits which had been kept in cold storage does not grow at 
temperatures just above freezing point. 
This fungus appears to be the type of a new genus of the 
Dematiaceae, the characteristic feature being the successive 
lateral proliferations of the basal cells of the conidiophores. 
The genus is named Wardomyces in.memory of the late Prof. 
Marshall Ward. 
Wardomyces n.gen.* 
Mycelium creeping, septate, hyaline. Conidiophores formed 
as lateral branches of the mycelium, short, branched, septate, 
hyaline, the branches arising as successive lateral proliferations 
of the basal cells. Conidia abstricted singly, arising from the 
terminal cells of the conidiophores in lateral succession in 
groups, oval to spherical, brown to black. 
The species diagnosis is as follows: 
Wardomyces anomala n.sp.f 
Colonies circular, white to fuscous, adpressed to the sub- 
stratum, {-}” in diameter. 
Hyphae creeping, branched, septate, 2-4 » wide, hyaline. 
Conidiophores short, 15-25 » long, scarcely differentiated from 
the vegetative hyphae, branched or unbranched, hyaline. 
Conidia abstricted singly, brown to black, smooth, sub- 
spherical to oval, usually with slightly pointed ends, 5-8 py x 
4-6 LP. 
Habitat on flesh of rabbits kept in cold storage. 
VI. PENICILLIUM spp. 
Forms of the common blue-green mould were of frequent 
occurrence upon cold-store meat, and were occasionally found 
* Wardomyces gen.nov. 
Mycelio repente, septato, hyalino, conidiophoris e mycelio lateraliter ex- 
orientibus, brevibus, ramosis, septatis, hyalinis, ramis e ¢ellulis basalibus suc- 
cessive emissis. Conidiis singillatim abstrictis, e cellulis conidiophorarum 
terminalibus successione laterali gregatim exorientibus, ovalibus vel sphaericis, 
e brunneo nigrescentibus. 
t Wardomyces anomala sp.nov. 
Coloniis circularibus, e albis fuscescentibus, substrato adpressis, 3-6 mm. 
diam., hyphis repentibus, ramosis, septatis, 2—4 u latis, hyalinis. Conidiophoris 
brevibus, 15-25 longis, ab hyphis vegetativis vix differentibus, ramosis vel 
simplicibus, hyalinis. Conidio singillatim abstrictis, e brunneo nigrescentibus, 
laevibus, subsphaericis vel ovalibus, plerumque utrinque subacutis, 5-8 « x 
4-6 pu. 
Hab. Ad cuniculorum carnem in frigidariis asservatam., 
