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underneath the sarcolemma and on the surface of the 

 muscular substance proper. But besides this intra- 

 muscular termination, there is a plexus of nerve-fibres, 

 which is situated outside the sarcolemma i.e., inter- 

 muscular ; this 

 has been seen by 

 Beale, Kolliker, 



^^ Krause, and 



others. Arndt 

 considers these in- 

 a termuscular fibres 

 as sensory nerves. 

 161. Tendons 

 are supplied with 



v special nerve end- 



ings, studied by 

 Sachs, Eollett, 

 Gempt, Rauber, 

 and particularly 

 Golgi, whose work 

 on this subject is very minute. These terminations are 

 most numerous near the muscular insertion. They 



a 



Fig. 80. One of the Reticulated Endplates 

 of the previous figure, more highly 

 magnified. 



a, The medullated nerve fi^re ; 6, the reticulatea 

 endplate. (Golgi.) 



Fig. 81. Termination of Medullated Nerve-fibres in Tendon. 



a, End-tnilbs with convoluted medullated nerve-flbre; 6, end-bulb similar to a 

 Herbst's corpuscle. (Golgi.) 



are of the following kinds : (a) A medullated nerve 

 fibre branches repeatedly, and the axis cylinder breaks 

 up into a small plate composed of a network of fine 

 primitive nerve-fibrils (Fig. 79). (6) This network is 



