Marks , employed for classifying the Schizomycetes. 1 2 7 
§§ Spores with diameter greater than the 
transverse diameter of mother- cells. 
Cornilia. Spores in normal 
rodlets of which the median 
part swells. 
Vibrio. Spores in special rodlets 
with a swollen apex. 
1 1 Rodlets spirally coiled (Spirilleae). 
Spirillum. ~ Rodlets cylindrical. 
Spores smaller than mother-cells. 
Spiromonas. Rodlets compressed. 
Spores unknown. 
(0) Arthrosporous. 
Pacinia. Rods cylindrical, straight or curved. 
Filaments often undulous-flexuose or with 
irregular false spirals. 
Bacterium. Rodlets ellipsoid, straight. Filaments 
never with false spirals. 
B. Rodlets and cocci invested with a special membrano-gelatinous 
4 capsule ’ (Klebsielleae). 
(a) Rodlets straight or curved, never spirally twisted (Eu- 
Klebsielleae). 
(i) Capsule repeatedly branched. 
Winogradskya. 
(ii) Capsule simple, never branched. 
Klebsiella. Contents uniformly diffused in rodlets. 
Dicoccia. Contents of rodlets bipolar. 
(/3) Rodlets spirally twisted. 
Myconostoc . 
[Appendix Cystobader — see Winogradskya (?).] 
III. COCCOGENAE. 
Exhibiting one condition only — i. e. cocci. 
A. Aseocoeceae. 
Cocci associated in colonies and surrounded by a firm 
gelatinous investment, or cyst. 
(a) Cocci segregated in the mucous matrix. 
(i) Cocci destitute of special cysts, but gathered together 
in families invested by the universal cyst (Eu-Asco- 
coeceae). 
