GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. 



external layer of cells is converted into the walls of the 

 vessel. 



In the development of capillaries another plan is pur- 



Fig. 232.* 



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* Fig. 232. Capillary blood-vessels of the tail of a young larval 

 frog. Magnified 350 times (after Kblliker). a, capillaries permeable 

 to blood ; b, fat-granules attached to the walls of the vessels, and con- 

 cealing the nuclei ; c, hollow prolongation of a capillary, ending in a 

 point ; d, a branching cell with nucleus and fat-granules ; it communi- 

 cates by three branches with prolongation of capillaries already formed ; 

 e, e t blood-corpuscles still containing granules of fat. 



