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Gelatin colonies. Deep: brown, entire, homogeneous. Surface: light 



brown ; margins irregular ; centres dense, becoming, in 3 days, liquefied, 



crateriform, 4 mm., with white irregular centres and greenish borders^ 



in which are tangled filaments. 

 Agar slant. Growth white, glistening, elevated, sometimes yellowish ; odor 



of sour milk. 

 Gelatin stab. Liquefaction crateriform, becoming stratiform or infundibuli- 



form. 

 Potato. Growth elevated, white, moist, glistening, spreading, rugose, becoming 



smoother ; odor of stale milk. 

 Bouillon. Turbid, with a fiocculent sediment, becoming clear. 

 Litmus milk. Decolorized slowly, and peptonized ; amphoteric — alkaline. 



Indol negative. Grow at 36°. 

 Habitat. Soil. 



177. B. Scheurleni Sternberg 



Manua], 1892, 680; Dyar, I.e., 367. 



Morphology. Bacilli 0.7-1.0: 1.0-2.5 /j,; occur singly and in short chains. 

 Agar slant. Growth thin, transparent. Grow slowly at room temperature. 

 Habitat. Isolated from the surface of the skin, mammas of woman, air, etc. 



178. B. liodermos FlUgge 



Die Mikroorganismen, 1886. 



Morphology. Bacilli thick, rounded, 1.2 : 3.5 /t ; in pairs and chains. 

 Gelatin stab. Liquefaction infundibuliform ; a membrane on the surface. 

 Agar slant. Growth a white, rosette-like layer. 

 Potato. A gummy, translucent layer ; gum soluble in water, precipitated by 



alcohol. 

 Milk. Coagulated, peptonized ; butyric acid. Related to, perhaps a variety of, 



B. vulgatus. 

 Habitat. Isolated from potato and from milk. 



179. B. mesentericus Trev. 



B. mesentericus-fuscus Fliigge : Die Mikroorganismen, 1886, 

 B. mesentericus Trevisan : Genera, 1889, 19. 



Morphology. Bacilli 0.8 : 2-4 /x ; ends rounded. Stain by Gram's method. 



Gelatin colonies. Deep colonies gray-yellow, irregular, with outgrowths. 

 Surface colonies, small, round, gray-white, becoming sunken in the gelatin 

 like B. subtilis. Microscopically, centres gray-brown, opaque, with ciliate 

 borders. 



