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Cl)c Qucenslana naturalist. 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEP:NSLAND NATURALISTS' CLUB 
AND NATURE-LOVERS’ LEAGUE. 
VoL. IV. December, 1923 Xo. 3. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
September — December, 1923. 
Excursion^ Sept. 8th-ioth. — A week-end trip was 
made to the Glass Honse Mountains district, about 
twenty members participating, l^articular attention was- 
given to the flora of the mountains and a number of in- 
teresting plants in flower were seen. Some beautiful 
clumps of the fern Poly])odium rigidiilum var. Vidgeni 
were noticed. This is a beautiful form of the common 
Rock Fern with lobed pinnae. 
Wild Floiver Shoii) and Natural History Exhibition,. 
Saturdav AfUrnoon and bvening, i^th September . — - 
A special feature of this year's exhibit was the com- 
petitive display of wild flowers sent in by State scliools 
from dilTerent |)arts of South-eastern Queensland. Owing 
to the keen compel itiun displayed Judging was found 
difncult, and it was decided to divide school districts into- 
two, those north and south of Brisbane respectively. In 
giving awards the facilities afforded by the district as a 
field for gathering wild flowers were taken into consid- 
eration. Prizes were awarded as follows. Southern : 
Division: Canungra D Wolfdene 2, Somme and Stan- ' 
thorpe, tie, 3. Northern Division: Mullet Creek 1, Cal- 
oundra 2, Palmwoods and Pomona, tie. 3. ; 
Interstate exhil)its were received from New South j 
Wales (a collection from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, * 
and one through Mrs, C. A. Messmer) ; Victoria (a collec- 
tion from the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne) ; South Aus- 
tralia (collections from the Field Naturalists' Club and 1 
Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, respectively), ! 
The principal contri])utors of Queensland wild flowers { 
were Mr. and Mrs. Curtis (a very extensive collection \ 
