Permeable blood vessels from either the iris or chorioallantois became impermeable to blue-albumin once they had entered the transplanted bolus of astrocytes.
In the western species, the crown is more scraggly and hair-like, the chest is a uniform blue-gray and not maroon and there is a less distinct wing-bar.
Stretching away below is a series of rigidly geometrical parterres, edged by towering cypresses, cloud-shaped crowns of umbrella pines and the blue-green of age-old cedars.
