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EXHIBITION OF WILD-FLOWERS. 



The annual exhibition of wild-flowers was held as usual in 

 conjunction with the October meeting of the Club, but this 

 year, at the request of the Victorian branch of the Australian 

 Forests League, both were held at the Exhibition Building, 

 during the currency of the AU-Austrahan Exhibition. The 

 dates arranged were Monday and Tuesday, 13th and 14th 

 October, and, mainly through the efforts of Dr. Sutton, con- 

 tributions of flowers were received from many country 

 correspondents, while Mr. J. Gabriel's aid in the preparation of 

 the show tables was invaluable. The display was a very fine 

 one, and created considerable interest among the visitors to the 

 Exhibition who were unacquainted with the Club's annual 

 display. 



As usual, the Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 

 Mr. J, Cronin, forwarded a fine display of cut blooms of Aus- 

 tralian plants, shrubs, &c., among which may be mentioned : — 

 Twenty-eight Victorian species, including Clematis aristata, 

 var. DenniscB^ Pink Clematis ; Calythrix Sullivani, Graceful 

 Fringe-Myrtle ; and Prostanthera rotundifolia. Round-leaved 

 Mint-bush ; and twenty-three Australian species, among which 

 were Boronia elatior, Tall Boronia ; Doryanthes excelsa, N.S.W. 

 Spear Lily ; Chorizema cordatum, Flame Pea-bush ; and Telopea 

 speciosissima, N.S.W. Waratah. 



Mr. A. Rutter Clarke also forwarded about fifty cut blooms 

 of Australian plants grown in his garden at Toorak ; among 

 these were Grevillea asplenifolia, A. oleoides, Hihisciis Huegelii, 

 Banksia ericifolia, Verticordia Brownii, Acacia Macredemia, 

 Prostanthera scabra, Anigozanthos Mangellsii, and Kennedy a 

 nigricans. 



Other exhibits were made as follows : — 



By Messrs. J. W. Audas and E. E. Pescott. — About 50 species 

 from Beaconsfield and Emerald, including Bauera rubioides 

 (white), Platylobium formosum, SphcBrolobium vimineuin, 

 Pultencea iHllosa, Epacris microphylla, Eriostemon correifolitts, 

 Pimelea octophylla, Acacia tenuifolia, Prasophyllum elatum, 

 Thelymitra aristata, T. flexuosa, Caladenia Menziesii. and 

 Restio tetraphyllus. 



By Messrs. F. G. A. Barnard and B. L. Stanton. — About 

 fifty species from Narre Warren, Paradise, and Emerald, in- 

 cluding Utricidaria dichotoma, Polypompholyx tenella, Epacris 

 obtusifolia, Sprengelia incarnata, PnltencBa villosa, Dillwynia 

 subumbellata, D. fioribunda, D. ericifolia, D. cinerascens, 

 Glossodia major, Caladenia suaveolens, Diplarrhena morcEa, and 

 Eriostemon correifolius. 



By Messrs. Coghill, O'Donoghue, and Sutton. — About sixty 

 species from Wright and Cockatoo Creek, including Telratheca 



