24 Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast Fungi. 



putrefy. It might indeed be objected that the air itself or the oxygen 

 thereof causes the decay ; but this objection also can be easily refuted. 

 Air may be admitted to easily putrefying substances which have been 

 strongly heated, but be deprived by filtration through cotton-wool of 

 solid bodies (and therefore of Bacterium cells) — and in spite of the 

 admission of air no decay will result. 



31. B. Lineola (Miiller), Cohn {I.e., p. 170). 

 Vibrio Lineola, Miiller. 

 V. tremulans, Ehrenberg {sec. Cohn !). 

 Bacterium triloculare, Ehrenberg. 



Cells exactly 

 ^ similar to those of 

 B. Termo, but 

 larger, 3 to 5 /^ 

 long, as much as 

 I '5 /x. broad, with 

 two flagella at one 

 end.* (Fig. 14.) 



In various in- 

 fusions, without 

 especial fermenta- 

 tion. 



Fig. 11^.— Bacterium Lineola; i, the zooglcea form (a 3 2- "• illO- 



and b, after Cohn, X 650 ; c, after Dallinger, X 3000). reum, Warming 



{I.e., p. 29 of the Resum^). 



Cells ellipsoidal or elongated, gradually 



rounded off at the ends ; length 2-6 fi,, breadth 



I '2-2 -4 ju; colourless, motile or stationary, 



c:o • but never united in chains or zoogloese, nor 



in large heaps. (Fig. 15.) 



Only in sea-water. 



* [The text says, "mit zwei Geiseln an einem 

 Ende ; " but see the figures. — Te.] 



CO 



Fig. ^s.—Bacte- 

 riunt litoreum, 

 X 660 (after 

 Wanning). 



