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!Ö2 EX P L A N A T I O N OF THE TABLES.
Z, A probe, ihowing the termination of a principal lymphatic trunk on the
fide of the fiih.
a, A probe pafled from the r-eccptacle of the chyle upwards into the iex;eptacle
of the chyle and lymph.
A portion of the receptacic on the upper fide of the root of the gills.
T A B L E XXVL
IN this Table are reprefented the heart, branchial artery, vense cavae, -and
terminations of the lymphatic fyftem in a Salmon.
F i g , 1.
I , The mouth.
.2, The gill flap.
3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 3,4,5,6, Four pairs of gills-
"y, 7, The pecloral fins.
8, The liver.
9, The gall-bladder.
10, 10, The two venae cavas.
I I , 1 1 , The places at which die lymphatic fyilem and internal jugular veins
end.
12, The auricle of the heart.
13, The ventricle of the heart.
14, The bulb at the beginning of the branchial artery.
15, The trunk of the branchial artery.
1 6 , 1 7 , 18,19, 16,17,18,19, Four pairs of branches into which tlie bran-
•chial artery divides, which are fpent on the four pairs of gills.
F I G . 2.
1, The liver.
2, 2, The two venae cav^.
3, 3, The right and left terminations of the lymphatic fyftem, which are fimilar,
contraded by membranes which perform the oíRcc of valves.
4 4 , The right and left internal jugular veins, terminating contiguous to the
terminations of the lymphatic fyftem, and having each a pair of valves.
N . B . The terminations of the lymphatic fyftem, and of the internal jugular
veins, appear more diftinclly in this figure than at numbers ir, i i, of
fig. I. bccaufe the orifices 11, ir, were kept on the ftrctch whilft the
painter was drawing thefe terminations.
5 , 6 , 7, The terminations of the vcnx cavx hepaticie.
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