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One (possibly two) axons filled with Lucifer Yellow and projecting to the crescent-shaped basilar papilla of an adult bullfrog. Each papillar hair cell can be seen by the autofluorescence of the material within it. Ordinarily, we filled only one axon per frog. In this case, we seemed to have injected a small amount of dye into a second, neighboring axon. Interestingly, both axons converged on the same location in the papilla. In a dye-fill by J. Caston while he was visiting the Lewis Lab, a single axon branched just distal to its cell body, and the paths of the branches diverged conspicuously. At the sensory surface (vestibular in that case) they converged again, onto the same hair cells. Last updated 07/08/07