214 LECTURES ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



which become medullary shortly before birth, and which passes 

 out of the pons, ascends in the raplie, and sends its fibres right 

 and left into the reticular substance of the tegmentum. Accord- 

 ing to Bechterew they terminate in the most anterior part of the 

 reticular nucleus. 



Ganglion-cells possessing a structure similar to those of the 

 pons can be found scattered along on both sides of the 

 and can be traced also in that structure into the tegmentum. 





