FIBROUS TISSUE. 
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either in white hands, composed of minute, equal-sized 
fibres, more or less wavy, or 
in separate fibres also wavy ; 
these, however, may be ren- 
dered straight by extension. 
In the tendons of the recti 
muscles of the eye of an Ox , 
this tissue is of silvery white- 
ness, and, as represented in 
Fig. 101, consists of flexuous 
fibres, all taking the same 
direction. In some parts, por- 
tions of the same tissue are observed crossing the 
flexuous fibres, these are derived from the areolar tissue 
with which the tendon is invested. 
Having explained and illustrated the nature and 
characters of white fibrous tissue in tendons, I shall 
digress somewhat, to describe the connexion of muscular 
fibre with tendons. This connexion is not effected, as 
has been generally supposed, by union with the invest- 
ment or sheath of the muscle, but, as was first pointed 
out by Mr. Bowman, by a close connexion of the 
white fibres with the terminal disc of each fasciculus, as 
shown in a fibre from one of the recti muscles of the 
eye of a Cat , represented by A, in Fig. 102. The same 
mode of connexion is evident in the muscles of inver- 
tebrate animals,— as, for instance, in the common Fly, 
In most works on Entomology you will find that the 
brown, horny shaft B, with which the muscular fibres are 
FIG. 101 . 
Tendinous fibres from rectus 
muscle of the eye of an Ox. 
