tru.1 m:Lrp;in of the cc'-po^Tl iMieir oncl". hecomo connect-o'. 

 vatli ijiu'o- u. -iuir fellovs of tlic Ccimo cid,. in a moro or 

 less regiil?.r v/ay by the fonnati on ° vascular tissue from tlie 

 cells lying betv/ecn tliem (Fig, 68). 



It has been shown ;.bovG .'hat the pleromo of the basi- 

 scopic half of section Vil divides in to tv/o portions 

 (Fig, bl) and that the aci'oscopic one of these furnisi;es 

 the median cells of the placenta (pa .j Fig, G2). Most of 

 these cells forT.i a part, of the general parenchjana of this 

 region of the placenta, but several rov/s of these cells 

 at the point betv/eefa the opposite microsporan^ia an', in 

 contact v/'ltli the first sogmentn of the apical cell of 

 th.e mticrosporcinginm, give rise to tlie placental bundle:; 

 v/hicli runs through the v/holr; length of the placenta. In 

 a region about opposite the inner ends of the soi'us (pa, 

 bv.. Fig, 53, ha) these stmie cells also become specialized 

 to fonn the placental branch v;hich runs acrossthev/hole 

 breadth of seciion VI from the single - ortion of the 

 lateral bundle to the placsntal bundle (pa.br,. Figs. nr>, 



. ). 



Tae sterile Segi;ients of the Capsule. 

 Wo coi.ic nov; o th'' ^' -hi. •.->■! ^■, r^" "■• capsule- -'•'^n'' 



