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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 

 special nerve end- 

 ings, studied by 

 Sachs, Rollett, 

 Gempt, Rauber, 

 and particularly 

 Golgi, whose work 

 on this subject is very minute. These terminations are 

 especially numerous near the muscular insertion. They 



Fig. 80. One of the Eeticulated Endplates 

 of the previous figure, more highly 

 magnified. 



, The medullated nerve fibre ; 6, the reticulated 

 endplate. (Golgi.) 



Fig. 81. Termination of Medullated Nerve-fibi-es in Tendon. 



a, End-bulbs with convoluted medullated nerve-fibre ; 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). (b) This network is 



