160 THE ESSENTIALS OF HISTOLOGY. 



the nerve-fibre may be supposed to take origin in the gustatory 

 cell. A similar arrangement obtains in the olfactory organ. 2. The 

 xustentamlar cells (fig. 188, c). These are elongated cells, mostly flat- 

 tened, and pointed at their ends ; they lie between the gustatory cells, 

 which they thus appear to support, and in addition they form a sort of 

 envelope or covering to the taste-bud. Between the cells of the taste- 

 bud lymph-corpuscles are often seen, having probably wandered hither 

 from the subjacent mucous membrane. 



