SCHIZOPHYTA— SCHIZOMYCETES 



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Fig. 26. Myxobacteriaceae. Chon- 

 dromyces pedunculata. 1. Gener- 

 eral form of fructification, cyst and 

 pedicel. 2. Single cyst. 3. Rods 

 forming the mass in cyst. After 

 Thaxter. 



group first described by Thaxter lives on the dung of animals and in habit re- 

 sembles the Slime Moulds or Myxomycetes. 



COCCACEAE 



Micrococcus pyogenes, Var. albus, Rosenbach 



White-pus Coccus. 



This organism, when grown upon artificial media, produces no pigment, 

 otherwise it is identical with the following. 



Micrococcus pyogenes, Var. aureus, Rosenbach 



Golden-pus Coccus. 



Infections produced. This organism, or the preceding, or both, are found 

 very generally associated with, and usually as the cause of wound infection and 

 suppuration in general. They are usually found in furuncles, abscesses, car- 

 buncles, and other inflammatory processes affecting the surface of the body. 

 When present under certain conditions in the blood or various internal organs, 

 they cause pyemia, septicemia, ostemyelitis, inflammations of serous mem- 

 branes such as pleuritis, peritonitis, ulcerative endocarditis, etc. 



