4 2 THE CONNECTIVE TISSUES. [CH. TV. 



of epithelium has. It becomes in consequence dark brown, with 

 the exception of the spaces occupied by the corpuscles. 



Fig. 55- Areolar tissue. The white fibres are seen in wavy bundles ; the elastic fibres 

 form an open network, p, p, plasma cells, g, granule cell, c, e, lamellar cells. 

 /, fibrfflated cell. (After Schafer.) 



The spaces intercommunicate like the cells, and being con- 

 siderably larger than the cells form a ramifying network of 

 irregular channels, which were first termed by v. Recklinghausen 



Fig. 56. Ground substance of connective tissue, stained by silver nitrate. The cell spaces 

 are left white. (After Schafer.) 



the Soft Kanalchen, or little juice canals. Areolar tissue is certainly 

 provided with blood-vessels, but the tissue elements are, as in all 

 tissues, provided with nutriment by the exudation from the blood. 



