TOUCH, TEMPERATURE, MUSCULAR SENSE. 



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shaped bodies filled with a number of spindle-like cells 

 hich at their lower extremities are connected with the 



Fig. 154. SECTION OF PAPILLAE FROM TONGUE OF RABBIT, SHOWING POSITION OF TASTE- 

 BUDS. (After Ranvier.) 

 71, nerve cut across; v, vein; a, gland; g, a single taste-bud. 



nerves of taste and at their upper end are pointed and pro- 

 ject to the exterior. A rather rough analogy might be made 



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Fig. 155. A SINGLE TASTE-BUD MUCH ENLARGED. (After Ranvier.) 

 p, the open pore; *, taste cells; m, white corpuscle filled with granules- r, supporting: 

 cell; e, ordinary tongue epithelium. 



by imagining an ordinary flour-barrel filled with a number 

 of sticks, their lower ends connected with wires but the 



