338 NORMAL HISTOLOGY. 



in the anterior lamellae. The substantia propria resembles the 

 matrix of cartilage in yielding chondrin on boiling, therein differ- 



FIG. 363. 



Interlacing bundles of fibrous tissue constituting substantia propria from cornea of ox ; interstitial 

 injection with silver nitrate. 



ing from the sclera, which, like the usual connective tissues, produces 

 gelatin. 



The cellular elements, the corneal corpuscles, are plate-like 

 or stellate connective-tissue cells, whose branched processes unite 



FIG. 364. 



Corneal corpuscles from calf; gold preparation. 



with those from adjacent cells to constitute a protoplasmic reticu^ 

 lum throughout the tissue. The corneal cells and their processes 

 lie within a system of intercommunicating lymphatic spaces 



