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MORPHOLOGY AND CULTURE OF MICROORGANISMS 



These results have been confirmed by our studies of a large number 

 of endospore bacilli {B. -megatherium, radicosus, mycoides, asterosporus, 

 alvei). Upon examination at the very outset of their development, 

 these bacteria present a homogeneous appearance and are uniformly 



Fig. 72. — Bacillus sporonema. i. Cell about to sporulate. 2, This cell grows 

 narrow at the center, as if it were going to be divided (Schaudinn regards this pinch- 

 ing together which afterward disappears (s), as the vestige of an ancestral sexuality i 

 like that of B. hulschlii). 3-$, Formation of the beginning of the spore. {After 

 Schaudinn.) 



stained with no great differentiation, explicable by the density of the 

 cytoplasm or by a special condition of the membrane. At this stage 

 the cells are in the process of active divisions, after which the transverse 

 septa are formed as follows: On the side walls of the bacillus appear 

 two small granules which take some stains (Fig. 73, i). These, soon 



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Fig. 73. — i-io, Bacillus radicosus. 1, Beginning of development., 2-3, Cells 

 at the end of eight hours; 4-6, spo rulation. _ 9-10, Cells in. which the chromatic 

 grains are located in the middle in a mass slightly resembling a nucleus. 11-12, 

 Spirillum volutans. 



disintegrate at the center of the cell to form a thin band marking out 

 the two daughter cells and forming the beginning of the transverse 

 septum. This strongly resembles a nucleus and has apparently been 

 considered as such by a number of authors (Rayman and Krius, Mend). 

 Toward the eighth hour of development, the cells show clearly their 



