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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Eurhynchium striatulum in Co. Limerick. 



This is a rare moss iu Ireland, and lias seldom been observed of late 

 years. It was found first by Wilson many years ago at INIuckross, 

 Killarney, where Rev. C. H. Binstead collected it again in 1896 on shady 

 walls. Dr. Moore recorded it from Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow, and noted 

 that it was apparently rare. It has not been found since in Co. Wicklow. 

 In 1905 I found a small patch of it at Askeaton, Co. Limerick, but the 

 specimen was lost. This 3-ear, on making further search, I was glad to 

 find it in several localities in that district. It is a southern species, ex- 

 tending from Italy and Dalmatia as far north as Anglesea and Derbyshire, 

 in England, and Wicklow, in Ireland. I have a fruiting specimen col- 

 lected by Rev. C. H. Binstead, near Wells, vSomerset, in December, but 

 it seldom fruits in this country. The Limerick plants were barren, but 

 it was too late in the season for fruit, which matures in winter and early 

 spring. I give some particulars of habitat and appearance iu hope it 

 may be looked for in other suitable localities in Ireland. 



E. striatiihim is not more than half the size of E. siriatur,; : the leaves 

 are striate, but quite different in shape and cell structure. It resembles 

 E, myosiiroides, Schp. more than any other of our mosses, and nniy have 

 been overlooked as that species; while the stems creep close to the 

 rock, the branches are somewhat dendroid as in that species, but the 

 leaves are striate with longer nerves. I found it only on limestone, not 

 iu exposed or warm places, but always in cool or shady spots on the 

 north or east sides of dry stone walls. It grows plentifully for 200 yards 

 at the foot of the wall of the field opposite the gate of Askeaton Rectory. 

 It occurs sparingly on a wall near the river Deel above the town, and 

 more plentifully on a wall by the roadside at Ballynorthalf way between 

 Askeaton and Beigh Castle. Search on the rocks of the crag country 

 was not successful. It seemed to be confined to the localities indicated, 

 at the foot of walls having a northern or eastern exposure. 



C. H. Waddei.Tv. 

 Saiutfield, Co. Down. 



Ditrichum tortile (Schrad.) in Ireland. 



According to the Census Catalogue of British mosses published in 

 1907, the little moss Ditrichum tortile has hitherto been found in six of 

 the vice-counties of GreatBritain, but not in Ireland, while the var./?/i^///a 

 occurs in four of the British and in two of the Irish vice-counties, the 

 two Irish records being, Dodge's Glen in East Cork, in Moore's 

 "Synopsis of the Mosses of Ireland," and several Co. Antrim localities 

 specified in the •' Flora of the North-East of Ireland." It is therefore 



