510 THE INTESTINAL CANAL, BY E. KLEIN AND E. VERSON. 



quently, beneath the cylindrical cells a second layer of small 

 round cells is found, and at the posterior surface of the soft 



Fig. 104. 



Fig. 104. Longitudinal section of the soft palate of a Child, a a, 

 ciliated epithelium ; b b, mucous membrane of the upper surface ; c, 

 glands ; d d, muscular fibres of the thyreo-palatinus ; e e, muscular fibres 

 of the levator palati ; /, mucous membrane of the lower surface ; g, 

 epithelium of the lower surface. 



palate the excretory ducts of a few glands exhibit, even in the 

 adult, for a short distance from the epithelial surface, a lining of 



