LECTURE XI. 
YELLOW EIBROUS TISSUE. 
The yellow fibrous tissue differs considerably from 
the white, consisting of large more or less branched 
fibres, of a yellow colour, with curled extremities. It is 
found most abundantly, as I have already stated, in the 
ligamentum nuchae of quadrupeds, and in the ligamenta 
subflava of the human spine. In the large Pachyder- 
mnata , as the Elephant and Rhinoceros , it is frequently 
employed in the form of a belt or girdle, to support the 
abdominal parietes. In a specimen, from the ligamen- 
tum nuchae of the Sheep , Fig. 103, a, the fibres are of 
large size and yellow colour, and much branched, their 
free extremities being more or less curled. In that 
from the ligamentum nuchae of the Giraffe , Fig. 103, B, 
the same characteristic curled extremities are presented, 
but each fibre is marked with transverse striae. When 
