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FlG. 121. A SMALL PART OF THE LYMPHATIC PLEXUS ON THE PLEURAL SURFACE 



OF THE DIAPHRAGM. (Magnified 110 diameters.) (Eanvier.) 



L, lymphatic vessel with characteristic epithelium ; c, cell-spaces of the connective tissue, 

 here and there abutting against the lymphatic. 



FIG. 122. SMALL PORTION OF PERITONEAL SURFACE OF DIAPHRAGM OF RABBIT, STAINED 

 WITH NITRATE OF SILVER TO SHOW THE SEROUS EPITHELIUM. 



I, lymph-channel below the surface, lying between tendon bundles, /, t, and over which the 

 surface-cells are seen to be relatively smaller, and to exhibit five stomata, s, s, leading 

 into the lymphatic. The epithelium of the lymphatic channel is not represented. 



