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to be presently described. The neurites of the cells of Purkinje 

 extend through the granular layer into the white matter and soon 

 acquire medullary sheaths (Fig. 241, 6); but before they leave the 

 granular layer they give off collaterals, which re-ascend into the 

 molecular layer, where their teleneurites are in relations with the 



Fig. 241. 



Section of a cerebellar lamina perpendicular to its axis. (R. y Cajal.) A, molecular layer 

 of the gray matter ; B, granular layer ; C, white substance ; a, cell of Purkinje ; o, its 

 neurite, giving off two recurrent collaterals ; b, b, stellate cells of the molecular layer; d, 

 basket-like distribution of the teleneurites of one of their collaterals around the body 

 of a cell of Purkinje ; e, superficial stellate cell, which does not appear to come into rela- 

 tions with the bodies of the cells of Purkinje, but must lie close to their dendrites; /, 

 large stellate cell of the granular layer; g, small stellate cell of the granular layer; h, 

 centripetal neurite of a " moss " fibre ; n, centripetal neurite distributed in the molecular 

 layer; j, to, neuroglia-cells. The arborescent dendrites of only one of the cells of Pur- 

 kinje are represented in the figure. Were those of the neighboring cells also represented, 

 the molecular layer of the gray matter would display an enormously complex interdigi- 

 tation of such filaments. 



teledendrites of neighboring cells of Purkinje. These collaterals are 

 believed to occasion a certain co-ordination in the action of those 

 cells of Purkinje which are near each other. 



The stellate cells of the molecular layer (Fig. 241, b, e) pos- 



