182 PLASMA STAINS WITH COAL-TAR DYES. 



plasma stain for the ova of Ascaris by VAN BENEDEN and NEYT. These 

 authors used it for glycerin preparations ; it can hardly be got into 

 balsam. 



FLEMMING (Arch. mik. Aimt., xix, 1881, p. 324) attributes to it a 

 special affinity for nucleoli. 



319. Iodine Green ("HOFMANN'S Grim"), see GRIESBACH (Zool. 

 Anz., Xo. 117, vol. v, 1882, p. 406). Stain essentially that of methyl 

 green, but plasma often violet through the presence of a violet impurity 

 (MAYER, Mitth. Zool. Stat. Ne r ipel, xii, 1896, p. 311 ; see also earlier 

 editions). It is now only used by botanists. 



320. Thiophen Green (Thiophengrtin), see KRAUSE, Intern. Monatsschr. 

 Anat., etc., iv, 1887, Heft 2. 



321. Coerulein S., a green " acid ' dye, is recommended for the 

 staining of muscle-fibrils by M. v. LENHOSSEK (Anat. Anz., xvi, 1899, 

 p. 339). See also HEIDENHAIN, ibid., xx, 1901, p. 37, and KAWITZ, ibid., 

 xxi, 1902, p. 554. 



322. Quinolein Blue (Cyanin, Chinolinblau ; v. RANVIER, Tmite, 

 p. 102). Quinolein is said by Ranvier to have the property of staining 

 fatty matters an intense blue. 



It is useful for staining Infusoria, which in dilute solution it stains 

 during life. See the methods of CERTES. 



From the reactions mentioned by Eanvier it would seem that his 

 " bleu de qumoleine ' is not the preparation that usually goes under 

 that name. See EHRLICH, in Arch. mik. Anat., xiii, 1877, p. 266. 



323. Indulin and Nigrosin. Indulin, Nigrosin, Indigen, Coupler's 

 Blue, Fast Blue R, Fast Blue B, Blackley Blue, Guernsey Blue, Indigo 

 substitute are the names of brands of a group of dyes, mostly " acid," 

 related to the base violanilin. According to BEHRENS the name Indulin 

 is generally given to a bluish brand, and that of Nigrosin to a blacker one. 



Nigrosin, used with sublimate material, I find stains both nuclei and 

 cytoplasm, the cliromatin strongly. It will not give the stain at all 

 with chrom -osmium material. 



According to CALBERLA (Morph. Jahrb., iii, 1877, p. 627) the concen- 

 trated aqueous solution of Indulin should be diluted with 6 volumes 

 of water. Sections will stain in the dilute solution in five to twenty 

 minutes. He also says that it never stains nuclei ; the remaining cell- 

 contents and intercellular substance are stained blue. This seems to 

 me to be, roughly, correct. 



324. Safranin and Nigrosin (or Indigo-Carmine) (KOSSINSKI, Zeit. 

 wiss. Mik., vi, 1880, p. 61). See early editions. 



325. Picro-Nigrosin, PFITZER (Deutsch. Botan. Gesellsch., 1883, 

 p. 44) dissolves nigrosin in a saturated solution of picric acid in 

 water, and uses it for fixing and staining at the same time, on the 

 slide. See also under " Connective Tissues." 



326. Anilin Blue. Under this title are comprised various " basic ' 

 derivatives of the base rosanilin. They occur under the names 



