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THE ORGANISM IS A MICEOCOCCUS. 

 THE GELATINE IS NOT LIQUEFIED. 

 THE COLONIES AEE BED. 



Micrococcus cinnabareus (Fliigge), from air and water; large 



spherical cocci, in pairs or tetrads ; the colonies appear on the 



sixth day, of a briok-red colour. 

 Pink torula, from the air ; oval cells, 5 to 8 /i* in diameter, forming a 



coral pink growth on surface of gelatine. 

 Micrococcus cerasinus siccus (List), from water; cocci 0-25 to 



0"35 It in diameter ; grows best at 37° 0. ; forms a cherry-red 



layer on the agar. 

 Micrococcus carneus (Zimmerman), from water ; cocci about '8 ;« in 



diameter, united in grape-like masses. 



THE ORGANISM IS A MICEOCOCCUS. 

 THE GELATINE IS NOT LIQUEFIED. 

 THE COLONIES AEE YELLOW, AS FLAT DEPOSITS. 



Micrococcus versicolor, from water ; small cocci, in pairs or masses ; 

 whitish-yellow colonies, having a yellowish-green iridescent 

 shimmer, becoming brown ; the medium also becomes colovured. 



Diplococcus of spreading oedema (Harris, Journal of Pathology, 

 1893), from the blood and tissues of guinea-pig inoculated from 

 case of spreading cedema ; cocci 1 ft ia diameter, in pairs enclosed 

 in a capsule ; cream or buff coloured fissured colonies. This 

 organism is markedly pleomorphic. 



