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very closely resembles the epithelial tissue, except that 

 the intervals between the nuclei are wider, and that the 

 substance in which they are imbedded cannot be broken 

 up into a separate cell-body for each nucleus. In the 

 second form (fig. 51, A) the matrix exhibits fine wavy 

 parallel lines, as if it were mai'ked out into imperfect 



Fig. 51. — AstacKS flimatilis. — Connective tissue ; A, second form ; B, 

 third form, a, cavities ; n, nuclei. Highly magnified. 



fibres. In this form, as in the next to be described, 

 more or less spherical cavities, which contain a clear 

 fluid, are excavated in the matrix ; and the number of 



