planiusculus 
Plastin 
divides an object into symmetrical 
halves ; planius’culus (Lat.), nearly 
flat, 
Planktol’ogy (m)\ayxrés, wandering, 
doyos, a discourse), the department 
of pelagic botany, that is, of the 
floating organisms in the ocean; 
Plank’ton, free-swimming or float- 
ing oceanic life; fresh’water ~, 
that of lakes or rivers; nerit/ic~, 
found near the coast; ocean’ic ~, 
pelagic, far from land. 
Plan’ogamete (mAdvos, wandering, 
yapérns, a spouse), a mobile ciliated 
gamete or zoogamete, as in Chloro- 
phyceae ; Plan’ospore (copa, a 
seed), Sauvagean’s term for a 
motile zoospore. 
Plant, Plan'ta, a vegetable production 
nourished by gases or liquids and 
not ingesting solid particles of 
food (except in the plasmodial 
stage of Myxogastres); ~ Cane, 
the first year’s growth of the sugar- 
cane from seed; ~ Cas’ein, a sub- 
stance akin to animal casein ; 
Formation, an assemblage of plants 
living together in a community 
under the same environment, as a 
moor or wood; ~ Pathol’ogy, the 
study of plant-diseases; Plan’tae 
tris’tes, evening flowering plants, 
as Matthiola bicornis, DC., etc.; 
plan’tal, pertaining to plants; 
Plan’ticle, the embryo in a seed; 
Plan’tlet, a little plant; Plan’tule, 
Plan’tula = PLUMULE; Plantula’tio 
= GERMINATION. 
Plasm, Plas’ma (7\dcya, that formed), 
used for PRoTOPLASM ; Plasmamoe’- 
bae (+ AmoxEBA), amoebiform 
masses of protoplasm, the actino- 
phrydia of Gobi; plasmatop‘arous 
(pario, I bring forth), in germina- 
tion the whole of the protoplasm 
of a gonidium issues as a rounded 
mass, which at once becomes coated 
with a membrane, and puts out a 
germ-tube ; Plas’masome, or Plas- 
mat’/osome (cwyua, a body), a proto- 
plasmic corpuscle, shortened to 
PuLasomE; plasmat/ic, ready, or 
serving for growth, plastic; Plas’- 
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mode = PLASMODIUM ; Plasmo’diae, 
Caruel’s term for Myxogastres ; 
plasmo’dial, plasmo’dic, pertaining 
to a plasmodium ; Plasmo’diocarp, 
(xapros, fruit), an asymmetrical 
sporangium of Myxogastres (Rosta- 
fiiski) ; Plasmo‘diogens (‘yévos, 
race, offspring), Macmillan’s word 
for the protoplasmic units of a 
plasmodium ; plasmodioph’orus 
(gopéw, I carry), producing a true 
plasmodium ; Plasmo’dium, a mass 
of naked much-nucleated proto- 
plasm, showing amoeboid move- 
ments; aggregated ~, the myxa- 
moebaecongregated without fusion, 
each cell giving rise to a spore or 
foot-cell ; fused ~, union of myxa- 
moebae and subsequent fructifica- 
tion (Van Tieghem) ; Plasmol’ysis 
(Advots, a loosing), a separation of 
the living protoplasm from the 
cell- wall by osmotic action ; 
plas’‘molysed, subjected to plasmo- 
lysis; adj. plasmolyt’ic; plasmo- 
ph’agous (f¢dyw, I eat), absorbing 
the living organic matter of the 
host-plant without selection (Boul- 
ger); Plasmosyn’agy (cvvdyw, I 
collect), accumulation of the pro- 
toplasts of the polioplasm and of 
the plastids included in it, due to 
plasmolytic irritation (Tswett) ; 
Plas’ome, a living element of pro- 
toplasm, shortened from PLasma- 
TOSOME (Wiesner) ; plas’tic, capable 
of being moulded or modified; ~ 
Sub’stances, those employed in 
building up, as cellulose, starch- 
grains, proteids, etc. ; Plastic’ity, 
the quality of being plastic; Plas’tid, 
Plastid'ium, a protoplasmic granule 
in active cells, differentiated as 
centres of chemical or vital activity, 
as CHLORO-, CHRoMo-, and Lzv- 
COPLASTID; Plas'tidplasm, (+ 
Piasm), a supposititious substance 
differing from other forms of pro- 
toplasm by morphological charac- 
ters (B. M. Davis); Plas’tidule, 
Elsberg’s term for the smallest 
mass of protoplasm which can exist 
as such ; Plas’tin, an essential ele- 
