Thanks for these great design ideas. I think
#23 and
#22 are closer to the brief, needing to be authoritative. And I like your use of color, which is close to our national colors - green and gold. I think the flowers are a little too cartoon like however. We represent scientists, and they naturally like detail and correctness, so if you could get the flowers closer to being botanically correct, this would be closer to winning. thanks!