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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Mosses New to Ireland. 



The following two mosses appear to be additions to the Irish flora ; 

 both are rare in Great Britain : — Dicranella ctirvata (Hedw.) : on rocks in a 

 narrow, deep, little glen on the south of Nepliin Mountain, County Mayo, 

 1901, Lett and M'Ardle ; and Hypmini timbrattim, Ehrh : associated with, 

 Scapania ornithopodioides and Masligophora Woodsii, on Slieveniore, Achill 

 Island, County Mayo, 1901, Lett. This is a new station for these two 

 Hepatics, for which hitherto the only Irish localities were in County 

 Kerry. 



H. W. L]STT. 



Aghaderg, County Down. 



Peat Bricks. 



Apropos of Mr. Welch's note on "peat bricks," I think he is under a 

 misapprehension in considering the use of peat for indoor walls as a 

 species of jerry-building. Under some circumstances sods of turf or 

 peat are most economical and desirable for indoor walls. A wall of peat 

 is light in weight ; it deadens sound, and (in most parts of Ireland) it is 

 inexpensive. It is also a perfectly dr}' wall, if the peat is properly dry 

 when put in. I know of two good old houses in County Dublin where 

 the walls between the bedrooms are of peat, and one new house, built 

 eight or ten years ago, where the inside walls of the upper storey are of 

 the same material. Where an inexpensive, light-weight material, which 

 is a non-conductor of sound is desired, peat might be much more used. 



J. B. PaIvMER. 

 Dublin. 



Puget's Herbarium. 



Botanists who have made a study of the plants of the Alps about la 

 Hte. Savoie et Valais, will be familiar with the Memoirs of M. Puget on 

 the flora of the mountain range between Bonneville and Sallanches, 

 and of the Region about Annecy. 



M. Puget's herbarium was sold, it is believed, between 1872 and 1878 

 to " un rollectionneur habitant un chateau en Irlande." No information 

 can be obtained as to the owner of the chateau or of the Herbarium, 

 but in the interests of botanists, such information is earnestlj- desired, 

 and may be addressed to M. Gustave Beauverd, Herbier Boissier, Cham- 

 besy, Switzerland, or to 



^. P. Wright. 



5, Trinity College, Dublin. 



