I 9O BACTERIOLOGY. 



doing, with one or two exceptions, we get collected 

 together those short rod-forms (Fig. 67), which 

 appear to link the simple cocci to the spore-bearing 

 rods or bacilli. 



This must surely lead to less confusion than 







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FIG. 68. EMMERICH'S BACTERIUM, X 700 (after Emmerich). 



regarding all rod-forms as bacilli, and massing 

 them together into one genus. For by those who 

 adopt the latter plan, not only are very short rods 

 with rounded ends included as bacilli, e.g., Bacillus 



FIG. 69. COLONIES ON NUTRIENT GELATINE, x 60. 



Neapolitans or Emmerich's bacterium (Fig. 68), 

 but even cells which are described as ovoid are also 

 regarded as bacilli, as in Loffler's so-called Bacillus 

 parvus ovatus. 



