ELEMENTS OF HISTOLOGY. 



[Chap. V, 



the connective tissue cells are also branched flattened 

 corpuscles, and by their longer 

 or shorter processes are con- 

 nected into a network (Fig. 24). 

 Each cell has a flattened oblong 

 nucleus. As a rule, some of 

 the processes are membranous 

 prolongations coming off under 

 an angle from the body of the 

 cell, which is then called the 

 chief plate, the processes being 

 the secondary plates. By the 

 latter the cell is wedged in 

 between the bundles of the tra- 



Networks of theBranched becula to which it belongs. 

 Corneal Corpuscles. m, . , r , n 



a, The network of their pro- TlllS character of the Cells 



cesses; 6, nucleus of the /,,' p of TWUtAWXiTiiy <jp<->nr>rlnrv 



corpuscle. (Atlas.) ( l ' e -> OI possessing secoi.uaiy 



plates) is well shown by the 

 cells of the skin and 

 mucous membranes, j ^ 



but only in a very fi .&* 



limited degree by "" \u^ 



those of the cornea X 



and serous mem- 

 branes, and somewhat 

 better by some of 

 those of the subcuta- 

 neous and other loose 

 connective tissues. 



In the skin and 

 mucous membranes 

 also the cells and 

 their processes are 

 situated in the in- 

 terfascicular spaces. 

 41. The connec- 



tive tissue corpuscles 



Fig. 26. From the Cornea of Kitten, 

 stained with Nitrate of Silver, show- 

 ing the Lymph-canal System. 



a, The lacunas, each containing the nucleated 

 cell-body, just indicated here ; 6. the 

 canalicuh for the cell processes. (Atlas.) 



