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7. Explain the fertilisation of the ovule in angiosperms and in 
gymnosperms. 
8. State shortly the structure and method of growth of dodder, the 
plants which it attacks, and the natural order to which it belongs. 
What steps would you take to eradicate it from a field ? 
9. Which of the following grasses would you employ in laying 
down permanent pasture : — Dactylis glomerata, Festuca prateusis, 
Holcus lanatus, Lolium perenne, Poa trivialis, Molinia coerulea, 
Phleum pratense, and Alopecurus prateneis? Give the reasons for 
your selection. 
10. Give the technical names and natural orders of the yew, the 
apple, the oak, the mountain ash, the beech, and the lime. 
11. Name and describe in technical language the jilants marked 
A, B, and C. 
EXAMINATION IN ANATOMY AND ANIMAL 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
Maximum Number of Maeks, 100. Pass Number, 50. 
Saturday, May \Qih, from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m. 
1. State the number of Vertebra existing in the horse and ox, 
and say how you would distinguish a rib of the horse from that of 
the ox ? 
2. Name the bones of the fore-leg of the ox from the knee down- 
wards, and point out the comparative differences which exist between 
each and the corresponding bone in the horse. 
3. Name the teeth which exist in the horse, but not in the ox, 
jwinting out their relative position in the mouth and their number. 
Describe the dentition of the ox from and after six months of age 
until all the teeth, incisors and molars, become permanent. 
4. Give the number and names of the so-called nerves of special 
sense and say to which organ each is distributed. 
5. Name the structures through which a needle would pass if 
made to penetrate the eye from the front to the back part ; say also 
by what means the amount of light entering the organ is regulated. 
6. Describe the period of utero-gestation in the mare, cow, ewe, 
and pig, and say by what means the birth of a foetus is effected, and 
in what respect these differ from ordinary muscular contractions. 
7. Describe the circulation of the blood in the foetal calf, and give 
the reasons for the existence of certain vessels — naming each — which 
in the foetus cease to carry blood after birth. 
8. Name the membranes which surround the foetus in utero, and 
describe the difference which exists between the outermost placed 
one in the cow and mare. 
