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communicates by a large opening. Placed on the inferior or 

 ventral aspect of the stomachs, this sac is but imperfectly 

 separated from the paunch by an almost imperceptible ridge 

 like those described as being on the first stomach. Beginning 

 at the posterior side of the circumference of the cardiac orifice, 

 this ridge is directed first to the right and backwards, and 

 then passes above the inferior aspect of the paunch to the left 

 and forwards. 



Quite close to this ridge, at the circumference of the orifice 

 of this stomach, above all inferiorly and posteriorly, are seen 

 long prominences, quite resembling those which occupy the an- 

 terior right portion of the paunch. As to the internal surface 

 of the second stomach, it presents a multitude of cells almost 

 rounded, having every one five or six angles arranged syste- 

 matically in groups. These cells are surrounded by partitions 

 which are very prominent, narrow, and rough, with close-set 

 papillae, elongated and of a triangular figure. The bottom of 

 the cells exhibits a great number of analogous papillae. The 

 cells increase considerably from before backwards in number 

 and size, their size here being eight or ten times that of the 

 commencement of the texture. For this organisation develops 

 itself by degrees in proportion as the distance is greater from the 

 paunch and from the circumference of the second stomach, of 

 which last part this organisation is, in some measure, but a 

 transformation. One may see, in short, the lamellar villosi- 

 ties at first rudely join, then approach each other in a manner 

 to constitute by their union the partitions of the cells ; while 

 others, much smaller, remain isolated, and form a prominence in 

 the bottom of the cells. Further, the toothed-like structure of 

 the partitions of the cells should suffice of itself to prove the 

 affinity which exists between these two orders of villosities. 

 It happens often, more particularly behind, that the interior of 

 the cells is traversed by other less-marked prominences, which, 



