5. In the classification of leaves, what circumstance determines the character? Mention six examples in which this principle is especially illustrated.

6. Mention and describe six of the modes in which flowers are borne upon the stalk.

7. By what process does a single flower become a double flower?

8. Compare the Australian Fuchsia (Correa) with the true Fuchsia, so as to demonstrate, by the want of correspondence in the parts, the incorrectness of the name of Fuchsia as applied to the Australian plant.

9. Describe the Eucalyptus Globulus.

10. What are the botanical differences between the Geranium, the Erodium, and the Pelargonium?

HONOUR EXAMINATION.

ENGLISH.

The Board of Examiners.

1. In the following passages parse fully each word which is printed in italics, and write a note upon anything which you may remark as peculiar or unusual in the idiom, grammatical construction, or in the use of words, in any of the passages:

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Now that they accustomed to burn or bury with them things which were dear unto them is testified by all antiquity.

(The Dutch) like weary oxen lie; Vast bulks which little souls but ill supply.

There is no sonnet of Mr. Wordsworth's corresponding to that of" the poet blind and bold." But though we found not these pieces to be wood.

For he is superstitious grown of late;

Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.

2. Make a full analysis of each of the following passages:

(a) It has been proposed as a problem to ascertain whether the slightest trace could be discovered of any impression whatever made on French art by the works of the Italian and other great painters during the sixteen or seventeen years that these remained among them.

(b) What time this custom generally expired in that nation, we discern no assured period.

(c) Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.

3. Write a note upon the derivation and upon the ordinary or special meaning of each of the fol

lowing words:

4. Write out the 8 lines from the "Annus Mirabilis" commencing "The fugitive flames."

5. (a) What Cases were used in Early English? (b) What did they severally express?

(c) What changes, in regard to the use of cases, have been introduced into Modern English?

6. (a) Who were Rollo, Constantine, Sueno? (b) Who were the principal naval commanders, on either side, in the sea-fights recorded in the "Annus Mirabilis"?

(c) Give some account of the Cartoons.

(d) Give a short account of the character of Antony as he appears in the play of Julius Cæsar.

7. Explain the following quotations from the textbooks:

(a) Metropolis of humidity.

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(b) Artifice of clay.

(e) Exility of bones.

(d) After the manner of abject corpses.

(e) No irrational ferity.

(f) Ciceroni.

(g) Searcloth.

(h) I never stood on ceremonies.

(i) Out of the teeth of emulation.

8. (a) What four periods are marked in the English Language?

(b) Give approximately the date of each.

(c) Note the chief characteristics which distinguish each.

(d) Name one or two works written in each period, giving the names of the authors.

9. Give the precise meaning of the following passages in modern English :—

(a) But not with such familiar instances.

(b) We admire not observations of coals found fresh after four hundred years.

(c) To have entered their graves without the old habit of flowers.

(d) What need we any spur, but our own cause, To prick us to redress? What other bond, Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter?

(e) But in the plague of Athens one private pyre served two or three intruders.

(f) The sensible rhetoric of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice.

10. Set the following in their context:

(N.B.-In no case need more than three lines be written.)

(a) "Accoutered as I was."

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(b) The abuse of greatness is."

(c) "A shrewd contriver."

(d) "We were two lions."

(e) "Must I observe you."

(f) "Dearer than Plutus mine."

11. Write an Essay upon-Inconsistency.

FRENCH.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Translate into French

"When, in 1759, Pitt entrusted Wolfe with the expedition against Quebec, on the day preceding his embarcation, Pitt, desirous of giving his last verbal instructions, invited him to dinner at Hayes, Lord Temple being the only other guest. As the evening advanced, Wolfe, heated perhaps by his own aspiring thoughts, and the