428 E. WACE CARLIER 



Beyond the last oxyntic gland thc surface cells change rapidly in ap- 

 pearance and over the pyloric glands they are conspicuous because the pro- 

 toplasm between the cups and the nuclei is fiUed with red staining granules. 



The mucigen cup is broader.than it islong measuring io,9X 16,51^, with- 

 in the cup the blue stained mucigen granules are very visible and abundant. 

 The distance between the cup and the nucleus is 1,26 i'- and the protoplasm 

 is so filled with minute red staining granules that its structure is practically 

 hid from view. The nucleus is conspicuous owing to its large size 20,5 X 

 15,0 I-»- and vivid staining of a rich violet colour, due to the great number of 

 lanthanin granules crowded within it, nevertheless no cloudiness of the 

 nucleus is produced by them, its abundant chromatin arranged in knobs, 

 streaks and dashes of a médium blue colour being plainly visible, as are also 

 the small venons red coloured nucleoli. 



The inner ends of the cells hâve a clouded appearance, are devoid of 

 vacuoles and stained of reddish pink colour. The cells appear closely applied 

 to one another laterally, the lymph spaces between them being almost 

 obliterated. 



20 Hoitrs afierfood. 



Over the oxyntic glands at some distance from the pyloric glands, the 

 surface cells présent a somewhat small cup in which the granules of mucigen 

 are only just discernable and stain pale blue. The outer surface of the cup 

 is convex but the inner extremity is often almost flat or even slightly con- 

 cave; it measures g,i2 X 7,53 ij^. Between the inner end of the cup and the 

 nucleus the protoplasm measures 1 ,8 a in height, stains of a bluish grey co- 

 lour and often contains minute vacuoles. No red stained granules are présent 

 in it in the majority of cases, but hère and thcre a cell with a few scattered 

 red granules is visible. 



The nuclei are of considérable size measuring on the average 19,5 X 

 6,84 p., are very cloudy owing to the présence of innumerable small bluish 

 violet stained lanthanin granules. The nuclear membrane is blue and some 

 chromatin adhères to its inner surface. 



The chromatin is on the whole scanty and arranged in small pale blue 

 karyosomes. The nucleoli vary in size, none being very large, but they may 

 frequently be seen lying just under the nuclear envelope and even causing 

 it to bulge outwards. Below the level of the nucleus the cell stains of a pale 

 blue colour, exhibits faint vertical striations and is often vacuolated espe- 



