1915] SCALES—FILAMENTOUS FUNGI 153 
dissolved the cellulose agar containing ammonium sulphate as a_ 
source of nitrogen. These cultures all show marked microscopic 
differences and are without doubt different species. These 8 
organisms may be of the same species as some of the 12 cellulose 
destroying species which Krarnsky° has recently described. 
Sort BAcTERIOLOGY LABORATORY 
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
§ Krarnsry, A., Die a ean und ihre Bedeutung in der Natur. Centralbl. 
Bakt. 41:649-688. 
