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THE CONNECTIVE TISSUES, BY A. KOLLETT. 



reunion, have larger or smaller interstices between them, so 

 that the whole membrane presents a gauzy appearance. A 

 very important character to be noticed here is, that the borders 

 of the interstices contain loops of fibrils which appear to round 

 off the angles. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 3. Fibrillar connective tissue from Peritoneum of man. 

 blood-vessel. 



a a, a 



The foregoing arrangement has been described as a special 

 form of connective tissue, under the name of the retiform,* or 

 areolar connective tissue.-f These expressions, however, refer 

 only to the peculiar appearances presented under the microscope. 



Another mode of arrangement exhibited by the fasciculi of 

 connective tissue is that in which, of three sections made per- 

 pendicularly to one another, none of the fibrous bundles run 

 chiefly longitudinally or transversely, but each section presents 



* Kolliker, Gewebelehre. Leipzig, 1867, p. 74. 



f Hassall, Mikroskopische Anatomie, translated by Kohlschiitter. Leip- 

 zig, 1852, p. 232, Taf. 35, fig. 7. 



