116 ADRENALS, OR SUPRARENAL CAPSULES, BY C. J. EBERTH. 



animals, irregular fissures or splits are not unfrequently found 

 in the centre of both the round and cylindrical cell masses, but 



Fig. 158. 



Fig. 158. Vertical section through the cortex of the adrenal of a 

 Horse, a, Capsule ; 6, cell columns ; c, cell masses. 



I have never met with the vesicles lined with epithelium that 

 have been described by Grandry. 



MEDULLA. Intervening between the narrow-meshed plexus 

 of large vessels in the medulla is a spongy tissue composed 

 of delicate connective tissue, in which lie the medullary cells. 

 These are sometimes isolated, but are frequently also collected 

 into rounded groups, as in Man ; or form plexiform cords, as in 

 the Ox, Horse, Pig, Dog, Cat, Rabbit, Guinea-pig, Mouse, and 



