Pleiophylly

(pli-off'-il-e). In biology, the state in which, starting from a given point the leaves of a plant are found abnormally increased in number. Platys to mous (plat-is' -to-mus). Having a broad mouth. Plaut's Method. A method of staining actinomyces. Either place sections in Gibbes' magenta-solution, or carbolized fuchsin-solution for ten minutes at 450 C.; wash in distilled water, place in a mixture of equal volumes of saturated aqueous solution of picric acid and absolute alcohol for from five to ten minutes, wash again in water, pa gradually up to absolute alcohol; clear in cedar-oil, mount in balsam; or place sections in carbolized fuchsin for ten minutes and decolorize in fluorescin alcohol. Stain the nuclei with Ehrlich's hematoxylin, and counterstain faintly with benzo-purpurin. (After Squire.) Plax (ptah). A genus of microscopic fungi. P. scindens, a name given by Eklund to a microorganism which he found in the blood and urine of scarlet-fever patients. (pi'/lov, Pleiospermous (pli-o-sper'-mus). In biology, containing an abnormally large number of seeds.