xviii] MOULD-FUNGI 497 



The chronic necrotic disease occurring in India, and 

 known as the Madura disease {Mycetoma), or the fungus 

 disease, has been investigated by Kanthack and found to be 

 caused by a fungus resembling in many respects actinomyces. 

 This was found to be the case in the yellow or pale variety, 

 as also in the black or melanoid kind (Pathological Society 

 of London, January 19, 1892). 



Boyce and Surveyor, however, find different parasites in 

 the two forms of the disease (i.e. in the white and in the 

 black variety). After carefully describing the naked-eye 

 and low-power appearances of the " roe-like particles " in the 

 white and black variety, they find on microscopic examina- 

 tion that the fungus neither in the white nor black variety 

 is comparable to actinomyces, but to a mycelial hypho- 

 mycetes which is different in the two varieties of mycetoma. 

 {Phil. Transactions, 1895, B, part i. p. i a.nd passirn.) 



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