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THE ESSENTIALS OF HISTOLOGY. 



palpebrse is columnar, passing at the edge of the lid into the stratified 

 epithelium of the skin ; it also becomes stratified in the part which is 

 reflected over the globe of the eye. The nerves of the conjunctiva 



FIG. 289. VERTICAL SECTION OF HUMAN CORNEA FROM NEAR THE MARGIN. 

 (Waldeyer.) (Magnified.) 



1, epithelium ; 2, anterior homogeneous lamina ; 3, substantia propria comese ; 4, posterior 

 homogeneous (elastic) lamina ; 5, epithelium of the anterior chamber ; a, oblique fibres 

 in the anterior layer of the substantia propria ; b, lamellae, the fibres of which are cut 

 across, producing a dotted appearance ; c, corneal corpuscles appearing fusiform in sec- 

 tion ; d, lamellae with the fibres cut longitudinally ; e, transition to the sclerotic, with 

 more distinct fibrillation, and surmounted by a thicker epithelium ; /, small blood-vessels 

 cut across near the margin of the cornea. 



terminate for the most part in end-bulbs, which in man are spheroidal, 

 and formed chiefly of a small mass of polyhedral cells, but in the calf 



