Used in Gridley's Method for Fungi for stain fungal mycelia, conidia, morphological detail of yeast forms and hyphae. See gridley, M.F.: American J. Clin. Path., 23:303 (1953) or AFIP Manual of Histologic Staining Techniques: 3rd., Ed. ED. L. Luna, New York: McGraw-Hill Publications, c. 1968, p. 229