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same figure the perinuclear layer is seen in surface view, the section being 
one taken just before that in which the nucleus is cut into. The proto- 
plasm also contains a reticulum of darker stained substance which is also 
aggregated in irregularly shaped masses. Other curious points are that 
there appear to be no separating membranes between the secretory cell 
Fig. III. 
and the adjoining cells of the reservoir" and that the fibrillse of the 
protoplasma of the secretory cell is continuous right through the cells of 
the reservoir. One would, of course, expect to see the secretory cells dis- 
charging by means of a neck situated in between the epithelial cells, but 
the glandular cell has apparently reached such an enormous size and such 
Fig. IV. 
an active stage of secretion that it simply " drowns " the adjoining cells. 
This can be seen in a number of sections and the cells in the neighbour- 
hood of the point of discharge of a secretory cell is always smaller and 
darker than those further off. The secretion is apparently discharged in a 
continuous thin stream. In the reservoirs it then takes the form of globules 
two of which are seen in the reservoir labelled 3 of Fig. VI. 
