AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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** SCHIZOMYCETES. 
Unicellular, multiplying by repeated subdivision in one, two, or 
three dimensions of space, and frequently reproducing themselves 
by spores, which are formed endogenously. 
Genus 52. BACTERIUM. Cohn. 
Cells shortly cylindrical, clougated-elliptical, or fusiform, in- 
creasing by transverse division, spontaneously motile. Daughter- 
cells either separating or united in a chain. Spore-formation as 
in Bacillus. 
2030. Bacterium termo. Duj. Zooph. 212. 
Cells shortly cylindrical, oblong (about 1^-2 p long), with a 
flagellum at each end. 
On putrefying substances. Australia. (Fig. 341.) 
Genus 53. BACILLUS. Cohn. 
Cells elongated, cylindrical, almost always combined in straight, 
rod-like rows, or threads, increasing by transverse division. Re- 
production by spores. 
2031. Bacillus anthracis. Cohn. Beitr. 177 . 
Cells cylindrical, twice as long as broad (4 p long), very slender, 
for the most part united into long, often bent, threads. Spores, 
not at all, or little, thicker than the threads (1^-2 p long). 
In the blood of animals in splenic fever. (Fig. 342.) 
This latter group is manifestly imperfect, as it should include 
the microbes present in many epidemic diseases, of man and 
animals, and probably also of plants. All these require to be 
watched and reported by someone on the spot. 
