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ADDITIONAL EXERCISES 



temperature is 40° to 4S°C. When ripe, the cheeses are prepared for shipment by a 

 covering of tin-foil properly inscribed with the manufacturer's name. 



PenicUlium Camemberli (Fig. 24s)— The colonies of this important fungus on 

 potato agar are at first effused and white changing in five to eight days to gray- 



FiG. 245. — PenicUlium Camemberli. u, Conidiophore with common type of 

 branching with conidiospores; 6, a common less-branched form; c. d, f, diagrams of 

 large fructifications; g, i, j, germinating conidiospores. {From Bull. 82, Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, also After Thorn.) 



green. The hyphae are loosely felted, about s*» in diameter. The septate conid- 

 iophores are 300 to 800/1 in length and 3 to 411 in diameter, thin-walled often 

 collapsing with age. Fructification about lysf taUi consisting of one main branch 

 and one lateral branch, sparingly branched to produce the sterigmata which abstrict 

 off ellipsoidal conidiospores, smooth and bluish-green by transmitted light, thin- 



