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8. Specify the principal groups into which the cryptogamia arc 
arranged ; give their distiuguirfiing characters, and an example 
of each. 
9. Give the characters by which the Banunculacece Cruciferai, and 
Graminece are distinguished. 
10. Describe the life history of Ergot, and state what may bo 
expected from its presence in pasture. 
11. Give the scientific names and Natural Orders of the following 
plants : — cow-grass, buck-wheat, oats, rib-grass, beet, and rape. 
12. Give scientific descriptions of the plants marked A, B, and C. 
EXAMINATION IN ANATOMY AND ANIMAL 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
Maximum Number of Maeks, 100. Pass Numbee, 50. 
Saturday, May \2>th, from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m. 
1. Say in which animal, the horse, ox, or sheep, the respiration is 
carried on through the nostrils exclusively, and state the cause of this 
variation from the general rule. 
2. Name the fluids which are chiefly employed in the process of 
assimilation, and state their relative action — vital and chemical — on 
the ingesta. 
3. Supposing the tongue of a horse and an ox to be placed before 
you, state how you would recognise the one from the other ; describe 
also in general terms the anatomy of the organ. 
4. Describe the function of the tongue, pharynx, and oesophagus in 
deglutition and rumination, and say which of the stomachs of the 
ox is chiefly employed in rumination, and what is the function of each 
of the other stomachs. 
5. Describe the dentition of a year-old and a two-year-old ox, 
stating the relative number, in each case, of incisor and molar teeth — - 
permanent and temporary. 
6. Name the structures which enter into the composition of a tooth, 
and describe fully the dentition of a pig at six, nine, and twelve 
months of its age. 
