ALCOHOLIC FERMENTS. 



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together of the spores mentioned above is perhaps the begin- 

 ning of this process. 



The germination of the spores of such species of the 

 groups Saccharomyces Pastorianus and Sacch. ellipsoideus 

 as have been examined takes place in essentially the same 

 way as above described. 



A second and quite different type occurs in the case of 



a 



FIG. 29. 

 Germination of the spores of Saccharomyces Ludwigii, after Hansen : 



represent a gypsum- block culture 12 days old ; d h, a similar culture, 

 one-and-a-half months old. 



Sacch. Ludwigii (Fig. 29), where the fusion takes place in 

 the very first stages of germination ; in this case, however, it 

 is the neiu formations and not the spores which grow 

 together. These new formations are further distinguished 



