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property of fermenting cZ-mannose. In beer wort (gravity 

 10.5 per cent. Ball.) it gives rise to top-fermentation phenomena, 

 and produces 2.5 per cent, (by weight) of alcohol. An agreeable 

 aroma is disengaged during fermentation. The species was dis- 

 covered by P. Greig in cane-sugar molasses used in Jamaica for 

 the production of rum. 



