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and posteriorly.. Each is connected with the ventricular sur- 
face by a thick process which may join the cell body or the base 
of the principal dendrite. They are of quite different form 
from the ependyma cells of this region (fig. 32). These ependyma 
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Fig. 28 Section through the dorsal border of the decussation of the lateral 
forebrain bundles. That segment of the dorsal olfactory projection tract which 
accompanies the lateral forebrain bundle is visible for its entire length i this 
section. 
cells, moreover, are slender, much branched and varicose, in 
marked contrast with the mossy ependymal elements found 
elsewhere in the brains of these larvae. The axons of these 
neurons, so far as observed, are directed dorsalward and forward 
