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be „washed out“ on account of the faet that the sp.cules have a 
tendency to diverge a little. Undoubtedly there are also sp.cules 
lying transversely to the axis, so as to bring in m.nd secondary 
fibres; at any rate, in a more or less right-angle to the axis there 
are some very short fibres consisting of very few sp.cules, which 
are, apparently. only continuations o.ttside of the ax.s of the just 
mentioned transversely lying spicules in this latter. 
