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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 5 but if there be more than one 

 plane of fibres they cross or inter- 

 lace with each other. In some 

 specimens it is very difficult to 

 make out the fibres distinctly, 

 except with oblique light; from 

 this circumstance it would appear 

 that this tissue is composed of 

 longitudinally striated membrane, 

 which is often found split up into 

 fibres. The white fibrous tissue is 

 principally employed in the formation of ligaments and 

 tendons— a purpose for which it is admirably fitted on 

 account of its inelasticity : it alao enters into the formation 





Jig. 323. -FFfie contents of a 

 single fat-cell, separated and 

 magnified 250 diameters. 



Fig. S24. 

 1 White fibrous or non-elastic tissue. 2, Yellow fibrous or elastic tissue 

 ' taken near a ligament. 



of fibrous memhranes, viz. the pericardium, dura mater 

 periosteum, perichondrium, sclerotic coat of the eye, and 



