In the crypts of the human tonsil, characteristic bodies, commonly called actinomyces-like granules, often occur. They are found, roughly, in about 30 per cent. of extirpated tonsils, and they probably appear at times in the crypts of all tonsils. They are small, nonadherent, grayish yellow, somewhat brittle, and foul smelling, and are often multiple and bilateral. On section they reveal a raylike arrangement of filaments, with peculiar brushlike structures at the margins. Smears indicate that they are made up of several varieties of organisms, the most conspicuous of which are coarse, unbranched filaments, coccal forms, fusiform organisms and many large spirochetes. Since descriptions of these bodies have already been published,1further details need not be given here. These bodies, because of their raylike character, have been mistaken for trueActinomyces. Their structure, however, is very different from the latter, and they are easily differentiated from it. In an examination