2S2 TIIE BLOODVESSELS, BY C. J. EBERTH. 



cells that are more polygonal. After treatment with nitrate 

 of silver, the cells appear bounded by sinuous outlines that are 

 often cremilatcd. and lobed ; as, for example, in the pulmonary 



Fig. 50. 



Fig. 50. a, Small capillaries with fusiform cells, taken from th3 me- 

 sentery of Leuciscus ; b, capillaries of the pecten of the eye of the 

 Bird, exhibiting polygonal cells ; &', hyaloid membrane investing the 

 capillaries; c, capillaries from the intestine of the Snail, showing 

 irregularly lobed cells. 



capillaries of the frog and of mammals, in the capillary veins 

 of the choroid of the rabbit, and in the capillaries of cepha- 



