IIIO 



FUNGI IMPERFECT I 



The growth on glucose agar is abundant, crinkled, or at times some- 

 what cerebriform; and in colour is amber, yellow, or brownish. 

 Grows well on gelatine, which it liquefies very slowly, so much so 



Fig. 589. — Hiwiispora yugosa Fig. 590, — Hemi- Fig. 591. — Hemi- 



Castellani, 1910 : Glu- spora rugosa: spora rugosa: 



COSE Agar Culture. Glucose Agar Glucose Agar 



Culture. Culture. 



that at first it was believed to be a non-liquefier. Gram-positive. 

 Milk is not changed as a rule, but occasionally it undergoes a certain 

 degree of peptonization, with a very small coagulum at the bottom 

 of the tube. For sugar reactions see the table. 



ORDER IV. CONIDIOSPORALES Vuillemin, 1910. 



Definition. — -Hyphales with the mycelium composed of abundant 

 hyphae, more than i micron in diameter, septate and branched, with 

 or without true conidiophores, and with reproduction by means of 

 true conidia. 



Remarks. — -The reasons for the formation of this order, which 

 contains a large number of families, have already been given, as 

 well as its advantage over the more fully worked out system of 

 Saccardo (p. 1037). 



Classification. — ^The order Conidiosporales is divided into five sub- 

 orders, which may be recognized as follows : — 



