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3. AVliat are the peculiarities of cells of pine wood? 



4. What is woody tissue, and where found? 



5. "What are air passages, and where found? 



6. What is chloroph3-ll, and where found? 



7. The difference between roots and stems of exogens? 



8. What is the plan of vegetation in the higher plants? 



9. What is meant Ijy indefinite annual growth? Give examples. 



10. Give the morphology of tendrils. 



11. Name and detine four kinds of underground stems. 



12. What are the points of resemblance between exogenous and endogenous 



wood ? 



13. What is the structure and place of medullary rays? 



14. What are pauicled leaves? Give examples. 



15. Name and define three w^ays that leaves are arranged in the bud. 



16. Structure, position, number, and use of stomata? 



17. Early condition of leaves in the bud? 



18. Name three very diverse styles of leaves Avhich are called parallel veined. 



19. Name several diAcrse forms of stipules. 



20. How docs a raceme answer to an umbel? 



21. Define the pattern flower. 



22. Describe an anatropous OAnle. 



23. What is a capsule ? Give two examples. 



24. What is the moiiihology of a fig? 



25. Name two seeds with and two without alljumen. 



Second examination in botany. Time given, two hours : 



1. What are varieties, and how are they propagated? Ten examples. 



2. What are races, and how propagated? Ten examples. 



3. What are natural orders ? Name ten. 



4. Name and define the classes as taught, 



5. Name two botanical characters of high value and two of low value. 



6. What is the name of a plant? Who invented the present mode of 



naming, and what are its advantages ? 



7. What are synonyms, and how do they arise? 



8. Difference betwween the natural system and an artificial one? 



9. What can you say of the movement of any tv\'ining plant and tendril ? 



10. The relations of insects, as now understood, to the flowers and leaves of 



the pitcher plant ? 



11. Name and give the country of five prominent botanists not now living, 



and something they Avere noted for. 



12. State the agency of insects in fertilizing some three species of plants? 

 12. What is dimorphism? 



14. Dichagamy? 



15. Define ferns, including mode of fertilization. 



16. Describe some fungus, its mode of groAA'th, etc. 



17. Name three prominent points about geographical botany, 



18. Define the grasses, and state their relatiAC value, 



19. Name fiA'e of the most useful natiA-e trees for timber and five for orna- 



ment. 



20. GIa'c characters of Lemminosce and state for what the order is remarkable. 



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