THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 107 



THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WILD FLOWERS. 



The fourth annual exhibition of wild flowers by members of 

 the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria was held at the Royal 

 Society's Hall on Tuesday evening, i6th October, i888. 



On this occasion the upper hall was also utilised for exhibits, 

 thus affording greater facilities for their inspection by the 

 visitors, who were very numerous. 



The weather during the day, and also for several days 

 previously, was rather too hot and trying for such delicate 

 objects as the majority of our wild flowers, consequently the 

 exhibits were perhaps not quite so fresh-looking as on previous 

 occasions. 



The flowers were arranged in the ordinary show-stands 

 according to the tastes of the several exhibitors, and occupied 

 some 700 tubes. It is estimated that nearly 250 species of 

 Victorian plants were represented by their flowers, besides 

 which there were about 25 species from the other Australian 

 colonies. 



The following were the principal exhibitors, with brief notes 

 of their exhibits : — By Mr. D. Best, about 80 species from 

 Phillip Island and the Dandenong Ranges, including a good 

 variety of orchids, leguminaceous flowers, Tecoma Australis, 

 Veronica Denventia, etc. By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, about fifty 

 species from Kew, Red Bluff, and Dandenong Ranges, includ- 

 ing many handsome leguminaceous flowers, Myoporum viscosum 

 (grown by exhibitor), etc. By Mr. G. Coghill, about 140 

 species from Echuca, Castlemaine, Tooradin, Croydon, St. 

 Arnaud, Leigh-road, etc. ; this exhibit necessarily included 

 several flowers unfamiliar to metropolitan botanists in their 

 rambles, such as Grevilleas, Swainsonias, Eriostemons, etc., 

 and also some New South Wales flowers. By Mr. C. Frost, 

 about 60 species from Kew, Ringwood, Dandenong Creek, etc., 

 including some very fine specimens of Pterosiylis harhata, P. 

 ■cucullata, and other orchids, Utricularia dichotoma, etc. By Mr. 

 J. T. Gillespie, several species from Heywood. By Mr. W. R. 

 Guilfoyle, F.L.S., a fine exhibit of about 35 species of Victorian 

 flowers grown at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, in order to 

 show the suitability of native plants for garden decoration ; also 

 about fifteen species, natives of New South Wales, Western 

 Australia, etc. Among these may be mentioned Bauera 

 rubioides, Calycothrix Sullivani, C. tetragona, Eriostemon 

 myoporoides, Grevillea alpina, G. oleoides, Indigo/era australis, 

 Kunzea ericifolia, Melaleuca Wilsoriii, Prostanthera rotundifolia of 

 Victorian forms, and Acacia saligna, Boronia denticulaia, B. elaiior, 

 Epacris longiflora, Grevillea acanthifolia, G. punicea, Telopea speci- 

 osissima, etc. By Mr. G. W. Robinson, Narree Warren, a fine 

 collection of wild and garden-grown Australian flowers ; among 

 the former may be mentioned a white variety of Tetratheca ciiiata. 



