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hairs, or as indepeudcnt organs, in tbe form of sweat-glands, 

 musk-glands, or mammary glands. 



The color of the integument may arise from pigment- 

 granules, deposited either in the epidermis or in the dermis ; 

 and, in the latter case, it is sometimes contained in distinct 

 chromatophores, as in the Chamceleon, 



