formed, as in Figure XV. Adipose tissue is simply connective tissue
loaded with fat-distended cells. The tissue is, of course, a store form
of hydro-carbon (Section 17) provided against the possible
misadventure of starvation. With the exception of some hybernating
animals, such store forms would seem to be of accidental importance
only among animals, whereas among plants they are of invariable and
necessary occurrence.