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Samples were taken from the top 10 centimeters of soils from 56 localities along the Dead Sea valley. There were 269 isolates representing 106 species dispatched into 51 genera of Deuteromycetes (Aspergillus and Penicillium not included) in addition to 20 sterile mycelia and an unidentified black yeast. The genera Alternaria Ulocladium and Fusarium were represented respectively by 6, 8 and 10 different species and were the most frequently isolated in the different samples. The most common species were Acremonium strictum, Alternaria alternata, A. chlamydospora, Botryotrichum pluliferum, Botrytis cinerea, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Epicoccum nigrum, Fusarium oxysporum, Ulocladium atrum, U. chlamydosporum, U. consortiale. One new Bipolaris species was isolated, which has been the object of two other papers (submitted for publication).

One thermophile was found: Scytalidium thermophilum. No strict halophiles but only halotolerant species were obtained. As already noticed in the first part of this work, there does not seem to be a fungus flora that is characteristic of desert soil or highly saline soil. Some ubiquitous soil fungi seem to be able to adapt to these extreme conditions.