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peripheral termination, and this mode of termination 

 occurs in the nerve-fibres of common sensation, as in 

 many of the nerve-fibres of the skin, cornea, and 



Fig. 68. Plexus of Fine Non-inedullated Nerve-fibres of the Cornea. 



a, A thick non-rnedullated nerve-fibre : 6, a fine one ; c, d, elementary fibrils, 

 anastomosing into a network. 



mucous membranes. In all these cases the peripheral 

 termination, i.e., the primitive fibrils and their networks 

 are intra-epithelial (Fig. 70), i.e., they are situated in 

 the stratum Malpighii of the epidermis, in the epithe- 

 lial parts of the hair follicle, in the anterior epithelium 

 of the cornea, and in the epithelium of the mucous 



