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parent bundle, what is at first near the juncture, a subsidiary bundle 
of the usual type of Remax fibre. Soon these bundles begin to break 
up in dots or short rod-like lines, which continue in the same course 
as the bundle for a longer or shorter distance, the space between the 
dots increasing imperceptibly the further they depart from the parent 
stem. The rods and dots increase slightly in calibre over the diameter 
of the fibres of the bundle, and are occasionally broken by knotlike 
thickenings; finally for the first variety these rod-like extensions of the 
nerve fibre become intersperced with others of a more irregular form, 
and the whole terminates shortly in a globular figure (Fig. 2) con- 
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Fig. 2. First variety of nerve termination in muscularis mucosae. -d. Nerve bundle. 
B. Terminal bulb. C. Intermediate portion of nerve. D. Aberrant nerve twig 
terminating in two small bulbs. 
sisting of a transparent capsule slightly separated from the muscular 
bundles (hardening ?), the sheath being filled with particles deeply 
stained, small and rounded, or irregular and coarser; all imbedded in 
a substance totally unstained by the silver, and of a highly refractile 
character. 
The second variety of termination (Fig. 5) differs from the first 
mainly in being more spread out between the muscular fibres, and 
ending not in/a’single large bulb, but in a series of small globe-like 
knobs inserted: between the muscular fibres. Both varieties are equally 
distinct, though rarely the small knob-ending may be seen in com- 
bination<with the larger globose figure (Fig. 2); the second variety 
though has not been found to have any other termination than the 
small end-knob represented in fig. 3, the intimate structure being 
hidden by the dark silver precipitate. Probably both have definite 
