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3. Define the followingstoma, hair, gland, prickle, spine, vitta, bulb, corm, tuber, 
rhizome, tubercule, and stipule. 
4. Explain the meaning of the terms indeterminate and determinate, as applied to the 
inflorescence of plants. Define a spike, amentum, corymb, capitulum, cyme, and 
fascicle. 
5. Mention the botanical and geographical source of Guaiac resin. Describe how it is 
obtained, its physical and chemical characteristics, and the means of detecting it 
when employed to adulterate Scammony. 
G. What are the characters of the Alexandrian and Tinnivelly kinds of Senna ? Mention 
their botanical and geographical sources, the substances usually employed to adul¬ 
terate them, and the means of detecting such adulterations. 
7. What is Saffron, and wdiat is its botanical and geographical source ? Describe the 
mode in w^hich it is obtained and prepared for use, its physical characters, the 
substances used to adulterate it, and the means of detecting such adulterations. 
8. Enumerate the officinal plants of the Leguminoste, and mention the parts or products 
of each which are directed to be employed in the Materia Medica of the British 
Pharmacopoeia. 
9. Give the essential characters of the following Natural Orders;—Caryophyllacece, Pa- 
paveracece, Scrophulariacese, Compositoe, Amentacese, and Liliacece. 
VIVA VOCE EXAMINATION. 
Besides the above questions, the following plants were submitted to the several 
competitors, who were required to name them, to state the Natural Orders to 
which they belonged, to mention their medical and economical properties, and 
to describe any peculiarity they might present worthy of notice :— 
Aconitum Napellus—Sinapis alba—Sinapis nigra—Kaphanus sativus—Althaea officU 
nalis—Chserophyllum temulentum—Coriandrum sativum—Fceniculum dulce—Conium 
maculatum—Ecbalium officinarum—Inula Helenium—Pyrethrum Parthenium—Tana- 
cetumvulgare — Anthemis nobilis—Hyoscyamus niger—Atropa Belladonna—Datura 
Stramonium—Nicotiana Tabacum—Solanuin nigrum—Solanum Dulcamara—Solanum 
Dulcamara, var. alba—Villarsia Nympheeoides—Borago officinalis—Symphytum offici¬ 
nale—Anchusa tinctoria—Origanum vulgare—Kicinus communis—Cannabis sativa— 
Funkia ovata—Crinum capense. 
The medal and certificates were awarded as follows : 
Medal .Alfred Eichard Flail. 
Certificates of | 
PEACTICAL CHEMISTEY. 
Dr. Attfield said that the highest praise he could give to his students of 
the session just ended was, that, in general attainments and conduct, they 
had fully equalled the students of any previous session during his director¬ 
ship. It was always a pleasure to him to teach chemistry to pharmaceutical 
students, irrespective of his own predilection for pharmaceutical chemistry ; 
for even if they had never looked into a chemical book, and not otherwise 
been thrown much in the way of chemistry, their associations at the counter 
had, at least, taught them the names, uses, and relative values of all ordinary 
chemicals, and, what was perhaps of still greater importance, had given them 
habits of industry, neatness, and application. These w^ere qualifications not 
alw'ays possessed by other classes of students, but formed such an excellent 
foundation on which to build a knowledge of chemistry, that it was a real 
pleasure to impart chemical instruction to any one who possessed them. The 
students of the past session had fully risen to his expectations in this respect. 
Then the number of students had been larger, the yearly increase having 
culminated in a class fifty per cent, greater than that of the first year in 
