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cavities, in consequence of which the cell body appears as though 

 it were on the verge of destruction. There are no plasto- 

 somes to be detected, though the nucleus appears in a still full 

 and stained condition, and both the nuclear network and nu- 

 cleoli are conspicuous. 



h. The changes of the glandular cells {figs. 92 to 96). Figure 

 92 illustrates, for the sake of comparison, a normal glandular 

 cell, the nucleus is remarkably long and occupies the middle 

 part of the cell body, so that the cell body is divided into 

 the upper and basal parts, each being filled up with num- 

 berless plastosomes. The ciha are somewhat short and thick 

 and are not altogether normal. Figures 93 to 96 illustrate the 

 changes which take place prior to menses. Figure 93, as com- 

 pared with normal conditions, is remarkably larger and its 

 nucleus, being relatively small, lies rather inclined to the base 

 of the cell, while the plastosomes, being chiefly short and rod- 

 shaped, largely lie scattered between the nucleus and the top of 

 the cell, it being a peculiarity of this cell that there are large 

 numbers of yellowish-brown lipoid granules assembled at its 

 basal part. Besides, there are in another part of the cell a 

 few deep-back lipoid granules, and, again, in this cell there 

 are extremely large numbers of vacuoles nearly of an equal 

 size, crowding together close to the top, viz., the cilial layer 

 of the cell body, though some vacuoles arrange themselves 

 along the surface of the nucleus in the deeper part of the 

 cell. In the cell illustrated by figure 94, the upper part of the 

 cell is clear, in general, because of the particularly conspicuous 

 vacuolar formations, whereas the common protoplasm is accu- 

 mulated more or less in the basal two-thirds of the cell, viz., 

 around the nucleus, in which part vacuoles are also de- 

 tected, though they are for the most part very small. Besides, 

 in this protoplasmic part there are extremely large numbers 

 of plastosomes, which arrange themselves and crowd to- 

 gether in various directions. Again, yeUowish-brown lipoid gran- 

 ules are found in comparatively small numbers in the basal part 

 of the cell, while deep-black lipoid granules, small in size and 

 numbers, lie scattered in the upper part of the cell. The 



