THE FELTN/E. 



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to retain the food within the mouth, than for an or- 

 eran of taste ; and the gustatory nerves are com para 

 tively small, and distributed principally to the mus- 

 cles*. In the different species, these papillae hav* 

 not a similar arrangement, some are in straight rowa 



* Desmoulins. 



