36 LABORATORY BACTERIOLOGY 
Homochromous: color uniform throughout. 
Granulations or blotchings. 
Finely granular. 
Coarsely granular. 
Grumose; coarser than the preceding, a clotted appearance, 
particles in clustered grains. 
Moruloid: having the character of a morula segmented, by 
which the colony is divided into more or less regular 
segments. 
Clouded: having a pale ground, with ill-defined patches of 
a deeper tint. 
Fic. 4. Types of colonies: 1, cochleate; 2, amceboid; 3, rhizoid; 
4, mycelioid; 5, filamentous; 6, curled structure. 
4. Colony marking or striping (surface). 
Reticulate : in the form of a network like the veins of a leaf. 
Areolate: divided into rather irregular or angular spaces 
by more or less definite boundaries. 
Gyrose: marked by wavy lines indefinitely placed. 
Marmorated: showing faint, irregular stripes, or traversed 
by veinlike markings as in marble. 
Rivulose : marked by lines, like the rivers of a map. 
Rimose: showing chinks, cracks, or clefts. 
Filamentous :; as already defined. 
Floccose : composed of filaments densely placed. 
Curled: filaments in parallel strands, like locks or ringlets, 
as in agar colonies of Bact. anthracis. 
