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THE MICROSCOPE. 



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employed in those parts subservient to the organs of loco- 

 motion. 



The white fibrous tissue is (when perfectly cleared of 

 the areolar) of a silvery lustre, and composed of bundles 

 of fibres running, for the most part, in a parallel direc- 

 tion ; but if there be more than on© 

 plane of fibres they cross or inter- 

 lace with each other. In some 



c'3br^o^<:^-,c,-^^r-r specii^iens it is very difficult to 

 Qtf^t?o§,«*^^^^:^ make out the fibres distinctly, 

 *arv?°Q»Q.ooCf8v^^^^^ except with oblique light; from 

 ,o2^5 this circumstance it would appear 

 that this tissue is composed of 

 Fig. s^s.-The contents of a longitudinally striated membrane, 



sm(7?c/rt(-cpW, separated and ^hich is ofteu found Split Up into 

 magnified 260 diameters. ., „, i •, m j- 



libres. ine white librous tissue is 

 ])rincipally employed in the formation of ligaments and 

 tendons — a purpose for which it is admirably fitted on 

 account of its inelasticity: it also enters into. the formation 



1 2 



Fig. 324. 



1, White fihrou.s or non-elastic tissue. 2, Yellow fibrous or clastic tisaitft 



taken near a ligament. 



of fibrous membranes, viz. the pericardium, dura mater, 

 periosteum, perichondrium, sclerotic coat .of the eye, and 



