. Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods. us(torula) fructiferous filamentous (endogen spores)the whole constituting the algous phase of thecryptogam forming part of the syrup, but swim-ming on the surface. Then begins the fungus phase as the littleheaps of endogenous spores, swimming on thesurface of the liquid, germinate and sprout. Thesebuds lengthen, separate, and ramify into aerialmycelium on which the aerial fructifications aredeveloped and which can only be formed andexist out of the liquid, although these aerialfructifications all proceeding from


. Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods. us(torula) fructiferous filamentous (endogen spores)the whole constituting the algous phase of thecryptogam forming part of the syrup, but swim-ming on the surface. Then begins the fungus phase as the littleheaps of endogenous spores, swimming on thesurface of the liquid, germinate and sprout. Thesebuds lengthen, separate, and ramify into aerialmycelium on which the aerial fructifications aredeveloped and which can only be formed andexist out of the liquid, although these aerialfructifications all proceeding from the same my-celium may assume either the aspergillus or mucoror the penicillus shape according to the disposalof the spores on the fructiferous filament. MILDEW AND MOULD FUNGI GROWTH. 441 In other words the characteristics considereduntil now as specially typical of the three classesAspergillus, Mucor and Penicillum, which are them-selves types of three very distinct genera wouldseem to be found together, either simultaneouslyor successively on the same filament of mycelium,. Fig. 165. Penicillum - ferment (according to Cocardas) Aerial fructi-fications in liquorice extract, the three forms: Mucor (1), Penicillum (2)and Aspergillus (3) are growing on the same mycelian filament A(enlarged 225 times). and to be nothing but the varied forms of avery polymorphous species, the Penicillum-ferment {Cocardas). Fig. 165, p. 441, taken from »Les Microbes«by Dr. Troussaert represents the three principal 442 MILDEW AND MOULD FUNGI GROWTH. forms of mould fungi which the author states hav-ing seen under the microscope growing togetheron the same mycelian filament. Each of the forms of the Penicillum corre-spond to a particular alteration of the syrups orsolutions. In thick (nourishing) syrups the ferment is ina bacteridian state, in liquid or flowing solutionsthe ferment is in a zooglarian or simple filamentousstate; in sour solutions the ferment is in a stateof aquatic fructification, an


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