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New YorkK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 159 
VI. A FUNGUS IN REFRIGERATORS. 
Last July our attention was called to a refrigerator which was 
not working properly. The provision compartment was flooded 
with water. Upon investigation it was found that the drain 
pipe was plugged throughout its entire length with a fungous 
erowth. The conical cap over the lower end of the drain pipe 
was likewise filled with it, as was also the tube of a large funnel 
set to catch the water and conduct it through the floor. 
Being, at that time, interested in the tile drain fungus dis- 
cussed in the preceding article, we at once became interested in 
this somewhat analogous case and decided to make a study of it. 
The fungous growth was gray or dirty gray in color; but on 
account of admixture with dirt from the ice some of it was quite 
dark. It had a slimy, slippery feel and clung together in sheets 
or rope-like masses which were often several inches in extent. 
Microscopic examination showed the slimy, gray masses to be 
composed of small, uncolored fungous hyphz loosely woven 
together. The hyphz were branched and had a diameter of 3 
to bv. They contained numerous roundish granules of various 
sizes, and appeared to be non-septate. The most striking char- 
acter of the fungus was the presence of curved spore-like bodies 
resembling the spores of Fusarium except that they were non- 
septate. They measured 28 to 43y in length by 44y in width. 
They were abundant and most of them were free, but occasion- 
ally they were found attached to the hyphe both laterally and 
terminally (Plate VI, Figs. 4-8). We have been unable to iden- 
tify the fungus. In the fresh condition we were unable to find 
any traces of septation, either in the hyphe or spores; but after 
the fungus had been preserved four months in a 4 per ct. solu- 
ion of formalin, some of the hyphe had the appearance of being 
septate (Plate VI, Fig. 8). However, the small size of the hyphz 
makes it difficult to determine this point with certainty; there- 
fore, the identity of the fungus is very uncertain. If the hyphe 
are really non-septate (and we incline to this opinion) the fungus 
belongs to the Phycomycetex, a group which contains many 
