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of the Flexor longtis pollicis, and the third or outer fascicu- 

 lus is also perforated by a tendon of the same muscle, and 

 is then attached to the second phalanx of the fourth toe. 



Lumbricales Flexoris longi pollicis. Also three fasci- 

 culi arising between and on both sides of the two tendons 

 of the Flexor longus pollicis, and inserted into the inner 

 borders of the bases of the first phalanges of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth toes. Thus each toe receives a tendon 

 from a long flexor to its third phalanx, the four outer toes 

 each a Lumbricalis to the base of the first phalanx, the 

 second, third, and fourth each a tendon from a short flexor 

 to the second phalanx, and that of the third toe is also 

 joined by a tendon from a long flexor ; the first and fifth 

 toes having peculiar short muscles of their own, receive 

 fewest tendons from the common flexors, and of the other 

 three the middle one is naturally best provided. (See Table.) 



On the following Table, the asterisks indicate the insertion of tendons 

 of the muscles named at the left, into the base of those phalanges of those 

 digits against which they respectively stand ; thus exhibiting the distri- 

 bution of the tendons of each muscle, the tendons which each digit re- 

 ceives, or the tendons which are inserted into any one phalanx. 



1 P'g=perforating. 2 P'd=perforated. 



8 This tendon joins that of the Limibricales Flexoris longi digitorum, and is 

 inserted with it. 



