SALIVARY GLANDS OF MAMMALS. 



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torius along the neck, and upon the anterior part of the thorax : 

 it is a broad, flat, oblong tabulated body, narrowest at its anterior 

 extremity, from which the wide duct emerges. When the duct 



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Submaxillary glands, Echidna setosa; nat. size. 



has reached the interspace of the lower jaw, it dilates, and then 

 divides into eisfht or ten undulating branches, which subdivide 



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and ultimately terminate by numerous orifices upon the mem- 



