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nerve-fibre, generally derived from one that has 

 divided, enters at almost a right angle a striped 

 muscular fibre, the neurilemma becoming fused with 



Fig. 78. From a Preparation of Striped Muscular Fibres of the Snake, 

 showing the termination of the Medullated Nerve-fibres. (After 

 a preparation of Mr. A. Lingard.) 



a, The nerve endplate seen from the broad side ; 6, the same seen from the 

 narrow side. Each endplate is a network connected with the axis cylinder 

 of a medullated nerve-fibre, and contains numerous nuclei of various sizes 

 and shapes. 



the sarcolemma, and the nerve-fibre, either at the 

 point of entrance or soon after loses its medullary 

 sheath, so that only the axis cylinder passes on. 

 This latter divides simultaneously into a number of 

 smaller fibres, which soon break up into a network of 

 fine fibrils, this ultimate network being embedded in a 

 more or less granular-looking plate, provided with 



