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ing from lamella to lamella, each time moved a little 

 farther on. Only the cornea is not composed of perfect 

 lamellae, but of layers, which certainly are on the 

 whole placed one against the other in a lamellar form, 

 but yet are connected with one another ; they do not 

 lie any how, more or less firmly or loosely upon one 

 another, but there exist direct connections between 

 them. It is therefore rather a large coherent mass, 

 which is interrupted in certain directions by cellular ele- 

 ments, just as is the case in the very different tissues 

 which we have already specially considered. A vertical 

 section discloses spindle-shaped cells which anastomose 

 with one another, but at the same time also possess 

 lateral processes ; and in consequence of their being 

 regularly imbedded in the basis substance, this lamellar, 

 foliated or plate -like arrangement of the whole tissue is 

 produced. When viewed upon the surface, in horizontal 

 section, they show themselves in the form of many -rayed, 

 stellate but very flat cells, which may be compared to 

 bone-corpuscles. 



FIG. 101. 



If now in this case of ours we follow the process with 

 a higher power, we discover, what may easily be shown 



Fig. 101. Horizontal section of the cornea, parallel to the surface and showing 

 the stellate, flat corpuscles, with their anastomosing processes. From His, loc. cit., 

 fig. II. 



