INDEX 



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Bacillus apiovorus Wormald, 67, 239, 



241, 244, 245, 246, 474 

 Bacillus aroideae Townsend, 240, 247. 



248 



behavior in milk, 250 

 Bacillus atrosepticus Van Hall, 265, 266 

 Bacillus carotovorus L. R. Jones, (See 



also soft rot of carrot), 223 

 acids produced by, 230, 238 

 attacks young green shoots of car- 

 rot, 237 



behavior in various media, 230, 237 

 behavior in the tissues, 223, 224 

 cause of soft rot of carrot, 223 

 colonies of, 



on agar, 232, 236 

 on gelatin, 239, 240, 269, 276 

 color on media, 230 

 compared with other soft rot 



organisms, 239, 240 

 disintegration of cell-wall, 232 

 dwarfing of plants infected with, 



49, 228 



flagella of, 234 

 gas formed, 230, 237, 240 

 gelatin liquefied, 234 

 grape sugar, harmful to, 251 

 host plants, 223, 225, 226, 229 

 inoculation experiments, 241 

 involution forms, 238 

 literature, 252 

 means of gaining entrance to the 



plant, 223 



method of isolating from the tis- 

 sues, 241 



milk curdled, 234 

 milk-rice, 246 

 nitrates reduced, 230 

 range of cultural characters in 



doubt, 232-241 

 resemblance to other organisms, 



223, 229, 240 



sensitiveness to drying, 36, 147, 231 

 sensitiveness to sunlight, 36, 231 

 swelling of cell-wall, 251 

 technical description, 230 

 temperature relations, 231, 238 

 tolerates sodium chlorid, 238 

 type of disease caused by, 223 

 virulence not lost readily, 229 



Bacillus carriers, 33 



Bacillus coli Esch., 54, 355, 356, 408, 474 



Bacillus cubonianus Macch., 342, 344, 



346 



Bacillus delphini EFS, 474 

 Bacillus gossypina Stedman, 314 

 Bacillus harai Hori and Miyake, 53, 474 

 Bacillus mangifera Doidge, 473 



figures illustrating, 3, 9 



most susceptible age of host for, 8 

 Bacillus melanogenes Pethybr. and 



Murphy, 265, 268 

 Bacillus melonis Giddings, 240 

 Bacillus musae Rorer, 473 



figure illustrating effect of, 11 



type of infection. 10 

 Bacillus oleae (Arch.) Trev., 394, 396 

 Bacillus oleae-tuberculosis Savastano, 



394 



Bacillus oleraceae Harrison, 239 

 Bacillus omnivorus Van Hall, 239 

 Bacillus phytophthorus Appel (See also 

 Bacterial black rot of potato), 

 253 



acid and gas forming, 257, 260, 263 



alcohol, effect of, 260 



appearance of tissues infected with, 

 255 



behavior in various media, ,257, 260 



cause of potato black rot, 257 



colonies of, 269, 270, 271, 272 



distortion of infected potato plants, 

 49 



dry air sensitive, 257, 2~s 



flagella of, 267 



gelatin liquefied, 257 



inoculation experiments, 267 



inosite, gas from, 263 



lactose, gas from, 263 



life in soil, 34 



literature, 278 



mannit, gas from, 263 



method of isolating pure culture of, 

 263, 266 



milk curdling, 257 

 - milk-rice, 246, 260 



nitrate reducing, 257 



non-growth in Cohn's solution, 260 



non-parasitic coccus accompany- 

 ing, 263 



