BACILLUS MYCOIDES 



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anthrax, but are distinguished from them by a lively 

 motility. Gelatine is liquefied. On plate-cultures there 



Liquefied portion 



Processes from the needle-track 



FIG. 58. THRUST-CULTURE i\ GELATINE OF BACILLUS MYCOIDES (FOURTH DAY). 



appear colonies which ramify like mycelium, so that the 

 plate looks as if overgrown with moulds. In thrust-cultures 

 liquefaction sets in on the surface as early as the second 



