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Penicillium expansum is often found on decaying apples where it 
produces brownish coremia. 
Aspergillus herbariorum . — This green mold also named Aspergillus 
glaucus and Eurotium Aspergillus glaucus is frequently found on 
fleshy drugs which have not been properly dried. It has also been 
observed on dried herbarium material, old extracts, on jams, jellies, 
Fig. 88. — Penicillium Roqueforti. a, Part of a conidiophore; b, c, other types 
of branching; d, young conidiophore, just branching, e, f, conidiiferous cells; g, 
h, j, diagrams of types of fructification, k, l, m, n, germinating spores. ( After 
Thom.) 
tobacco, cotton-seed meal, old leather, stale black bread, etc. Like 
Penicillium its vegetative body consists of a mycelium consisting of 
aerial and submerged hyphae. It differs from Penicillium, however, 
mainly in not possessing septated conidiophores and by the upper 
portion of the conidiophores being globular. Upon the globular ex- 
tremity of the conidiophores are placed numerous elongated sterig- 
mata which bear chains of grayish-green conidia. These are spher- 
