chap, xi.] THE LYMPHATIC VESSELS. 87 



connective cells situated in the rootlets. In tendons 

 and fasciae the minute lymphatics lie between the 

 bundles, and have the shape of continuous long clefts 



Fig. 53. From a Silver-stained Preparation of the Central Tendon of 

 the Eabbit's Diaphragm. Showing the direct connection of the 

 Lymph canalicular System of the Tissue with the Lymphatic 

 Capillaries. 



i, Lymphatic vessel ; 6, lymphatic capillary lined with ' sinuous ' endothelium. 

 (Handbook.) 



or channels ; in striped muscular tissue they have the 

 same character, being situated between the muscular 

 fibres. 



The passage of plasma from the minute arteries 

 and capillary blood-vessels into the lymph-rootlets 

 situated in the tissues, and thence into the lymphatic 



