A Green Pigment from Candida stellatoidea and Candida albicans.

Ashford (1917) noted a faint greenish color in some of the colonies of cultures of Monilia albicars. No other reference to a green pigmentation of Monilia has been found in the literature. Of the 6 species of Monilia described by Martin, Jones, Yao and Lee (1937) and Jones and Martin (1938) it was noticed that Candida stellatoidea2 produced large amounts of green pigment. This was considered of special interest in that it might give another differential character to separate Candida stellatoidea from Candida albicans. In the classification of Martin, Jones et al. (1938) these two species of Candida, although morphologically quite similar, were easily separated on biological differences and pathogenic action in rabbits.