234 ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY. [CHAP. 



as between those of any one appendage. (Cf. 

 Sect. C.) 



y. The intermediate mass ; a plug of vacuolated con- 

 nective tissue, filling up the entire interspace be- 

 tween the optic bulb and the muscles. 



d. Examine your thinnest section with a high power. 

 Beginning at the exterior make out successively — 



u. The corneal facet ; its flat outer and slightly ex- 

 cavated inner surface. 



/}. The crystalline cones. Cf. ante. Each is in 

 close apposition with the inner face of a corneal 

 facet. 



•y. The striated spindles or rhabdomes with thin 

 retinula ; cf. ante. They are disposed lineally 

 with p. 



8. The sheath of the above ; a nucleated investment 

 for each set of constituents. Pigment is de- 

 posited therein, being densest around the outer 

 ends of the cones and the greater portion of the 

 spindles, whence the appearance of the two black 

 zones seen under the low power. 



t. The layer of nerve fibres; passing between y 

 and the optic bulb. Look for them in places 

 where the pigment may have fallen away. 



£. The optic bulb; mainly composed of delicate 

 fibres and small cells with large round nuclei, 

 partly scattered, partly aggregated into two oval 



