CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 



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The hyaline epiphyseal cartilage of young animals, as is well 

 known, is traversed by elongated medullary spaces, which contain, 

 besides blood-vessels, including arteries, a large number of ele- 

 ments similar to those filling the medullary spaces of the bone. 

 Such spaces also pervade the hyaline cartilage at the border of 

 the plate of the scapula. 



FIG. 99. FROM THE CALCIFIED NUCLEUS OF THE CONDYLE OF FEMUR OF 

 A DOG, Six WEEKS OLD. FRESH SPECIMEN. [PUBLISHED IN 1873.] 



C, coarsely granular cartilage corpuscles with offshoots; Jf, haematoblasts, iii a club-like 

 space, which is inclosed by delicate spindles and terminates in a solid point, P ; L, calcified 

 basis-substauce. Magnified 800 diameters. 



In the epiphyseal cartilage of the knee-joint of a newly born 

 rabbit's femur, I found a radiating frame-work of calcified basis- 

 substance, which, bordering a larger central medullary space, 

 inclosed in its trabeculae a number of cartilage corpuscles and 



