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processes. Two varieties of these cells are recognized : the ft/tiilrr cell 

 or long-rayed astrocyte, with a small cell body and very many exception- 

 ally long and slender processes; and the mossy cells or short-rayed 



astrocytes, whose processes are shorter and somewhat thicker but de- 

 cidedly more varicose than those of the long-rayed type. 



Eecent investigations by means of the staining methods of Weigert, 

 Mallory, and Benda, have demonstrated that the astrocytes, as seen in 



