THE ORGANS OF THE MIDDLE GERM-LAYER. 



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beginning a segmentally formed organ, as can be best followed in 

 the Selachians ; for each mesonephric canal is developed in a single 

 segment. 



In Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals the connecting stalks are solid 



Fig. 204. 



Fig. 205. 



Figs. 204 and 205. Diagrams of cross sections through a younger and an older embryo Selachian 

 to show the development of the principal products of the middle germ-layer. After WIJHE, 

 with some alterations. 



Fig. 204. Cross section through the region of the pronephros of an embryo in which the muscle- 

 segments (mp) are in process of being constricted off. 



Fig. 205. Cross section through a somewhat older embryo, in which the muscle-segments have 

 just been constricted off. 



nr, Neural tube ; ch, chorda ; ao, aorta ; sch, snbnotochordal rod ; mp, muscle-plate of the 

 primitive segment ; w, zone of growth where the muscle-plate bends around into the cutis- 

 plate (cp) ; vb, the connecting piece which unites the primitive segment to the walls of the 

 body-cavfty, and from which are developed, among other things, the mesonephric tubules 

 (fig. 205 uk) ; sk, skeletogenous tissue, which arises by a proliferation" of the median wall 

 of the connecting piece vb ; vn, pfonephros ; mk\ mk 2 , parietal and visceral middle layer, 

 out of which mesenchyma is developed ; Ih, body-cavity ; ik, entoblast ; h, cavity of the 

 primitive segment ; uk, mesonephric tubules, which have arisen from the connecting piece 

 vb of the diagram fig. 204 ; uk 1 , the place where the mesonephric tubule has been detached 

 from the primitive segment; ug, mesonephric duct, with which, on the left side of the 

 figure, the mesonephric tubule has united ; tr, union of the mesonephric tubule with the 

 body-cavity (nephridial funnel) ; me* 1 , mes', mesenchyma that has arisen from the parietal 

 and visceral middle layers. 



cords of cells (mesonephric cords). It is only when they have de- 

 tached themselves from the primitive segment, and their blind ends 

 have united with the mesonephric duct, that they acquire a small 

 cavity (fig. 202 st). Now they also become more readily distin- 

 guishable as separate canals, since they become farther removed from 



