132 VEGETABLE PAEASITES. 



the name urophilus seems to indicate. It also appears to me 

 that the distinction between these formations and the changes 

 which milk-hairs undergo by the morbid collection of air in their 

 interior has not been sufficiently attended to. 



Habitat: In urina morbosa cury fills emissa (Rayer). 



Literature. ' Compt. rendus' et ' Memoires de la Societe de 

 Biologie/ 1849, i, p. 29; Robin, loc. cit., p. 361. 



V. Leptomitus (?) Hannoverii. Tab. I, figs. 7 and 8. 



Filamenta recta, tenuia, nunc pellucida, nunc granules conti- 

 nentia, ramosissima ad unum aut ad utrumque latus ; rami non 

 multo tenuiores truncis ; extremitates interdum inflates. 



Habitat : Hannover invenit speciem in massa pulposa ulcerum 

 oesophagi, et in typho, pneumonia, pleuresia, phthisi, delirio tre- 

 mente, apoplexia, diabete, gastritide chronica. 



This formation presents itself upon the living body on the tongue 

 and pharynx. It has been described so inaccurately by authors, 

 that Hannover, Mayer, and also Robin, each one of them, takes 

 a different view of this organism. Robin thinks that Hannover 

 has entirely overlooked the spores. 



Literature. Hannover, ' Ueber Entophyten auf den Schleim- 

 hauten des todten und lebenden menschlichen Kb'rpers/ Muller's 

 1 Archiv/ 1842, p. 280, tab. xv, and Valentin's ' Repertorium/ 

 1843, p. 84 ; Robin, 1. c., pp. 362 364 ; < Atlas/ ii, figs. 11, 12. 



VI. Leptomitus (?) Epidermidis. Tab. I, fig. 9. 



Gubler, who found this parasite, says that it occurred in a 

 young man who received a wound with a bullet through the 

 right hand. The wound was poulticed, and the skin became 

 white, opaque and wrinkled, as though macerated. On the fifth 

 day there appeared on the back of the hand and of the little 

 finger, white vesicles (like eczema vesicles after poultices), which 

 gradually increased in numbers and size, and produced a slight 

 itching. When scratched they emitted a reddish fluid, but under the 

 microscope they exhibited a number of byssoid filaments, such as 

 occur in " muguet." These filaments were very long, frequently 

 divided across, but were less clearly diaphanous and articulated 



