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JI. Gelatin not liquefied ; rods at sporulation between Clostridium and tetanus 

 types, variable. 



A. Gas produced in media containing milk-sugar. 



260. B. saccharobutyricus v. Klecki. 



B. No gas produced in media containing milk-sugar. 



1. Agar colonies compound, moruloid. 



261. B . polypiformis \JAianx&. 



2. Agar colonies simple. 



262. B. Sanfelicei. 



248. B. Feseri (Trevisan) Kitt 



Rauschbrand des Rindes BoIIinger-Feser : Wochschr. f. Thierheilk., 1878. 



B. der Charbon Symptomatique Arloing-Cornevin-Thomas : Compt. rend., XC, 



1880, 1302-5. 

 Clostridium Feseri Trevisan : Atti Ace. Fis. Med. Stat, di Milano, III, 1885, 116. 

 B, sarcemphysematis Kitt. 



B. carbonis y\.\%vA2L\ Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 1895. 

 B. anihracis-symptomatici Kruse ; Fliigge, Die Milcroorganismen, 1896. 



Morphology. Bacilli 3-5 fx. in length ; in thickness between anthrax and 



malignant oedema bacilli. Stained by Gram's method. Flagella 



peritrichic. 

 Gelatin colonies. Round, irregular ; surface warty ; radiating filaments grow 



out into the gelatin. 

 Gelatin stab. Medium liquefied slowly, with gas production ; a turbidity along 



the line of inoculation, with outgrowths. 

 Litmus milk. Decolorized in depth, reddened on the surface. 

 Milk. Coagulated, slightly acid. /«rfi7/ slight. HjS positive. 

 Pathogenesis. Guinea pigs show a bloody gaseous oedema by subcutaneous 



inoculation of large doses. Rabbits and mice immune. 

 Habitat. Associated with Rauschbrand, symptomatic anthrax, quarter-evil, or 



black-leg, of sheep, cattle, and goats. 



249. B. anaerobic No. VIII Sanfelice and B. anaerobic No. V Sanfelice 



I.e. 



Isolated from earth and putrefying flesh, indistinguishable from the precedin|, 

 except that both are non-virulent. 



