chap, xxxiv.] THE SKIN. 275 



admixture of networks of elastic fibres. From the 

 surface of the corium project small conical or cylin- 

 drical papilke. These are best developed in those 

 parts where the skin is thick, e.g., volar side of 

 hand and foot, scalp, lips of mouth, &c. Between 

 the surface of the corium and the epidermis there 

 is a basement membrane. Migratory cells, with and 





Fig. 145. Vertical Section through the Skin of Human Finger. 



a, Stratum corneum : 6, stratum lucidum ; c, stratum Malpiehii : d, Meissner'e, 

 or tactile corpuscles : e, blood-vessels cut across ; /, a sudoriferous canal or 

 duct. 



without pigment granules in their interior, are met 

 with, especially in the superficial part of the corium ; 

 they, as well as the fixed or branched connective 

 tissue corpuscles (see par. 40), and other structures, as 

 vessels and nerves, lie in ther-interfascicular spaces. 



372. (3) The superficial part of the subcuta- 

 neous tissue insensibly merges into the deep part of 

 the corium ; it consists of bundles of fibrous connective 

 tissue aggregated into trabeculse crossing one another 



