191 3- Notes* 143 
Help may be afforded in various ways. Old collections, ij carefully 
localized, should be sent for examination. Botanists visiting the districts 
in question might examine the algal flora, and if unable to spare time in 
critical study could do valuable service by sending samples or by making 
collections. Naturalists of any class could carry out the same work. 
The sympathy of friends, or even children, should also be enlisted, 
especially those who reside at the seaside. Common species should not 
be neglected, as the precise range of certain northern and southern species 
is not yet determined. 
Where time does not permit of drying, fresh material may be sent firmly 
packed in a tin box. It is hardly necessary to add that I should be glad 
to reply to enquiries or to give further information. 
A. D. Cotton. 
The Herbarium, Kcw, Surrev. 
Leucojum aestivum in South Tipperary. 
While walking, on May i8th, along the bank of the Suir, near Tur- 
tullagh, about two miles from Thurles, I discovered on the extreme point 
of an island-marsh a large bed and several scattered plants of Leucojum 
aesticum in full bloom, associated with Caltha palustris, Rumex Hydro- 
hipathiim, Spargaynum ramosum, Typka lati folia, Scirpus lacustris, Carer 
riparia, Phalaris anindinacea, and other marsh and water plants. The 
spot is inaccessible, except when the river is very low, and in wet seasons 
is completely under water, thus agreeing in character with the habitats 
of this species in all its inland native stations on the Continent, and in 
England and Ireland. It occurs on tributaries of the same river about 
thirty-five and forty-five miles further south near Fiddown and Watcrford. 
and, taking all the circumstances into consideration, I see no reason to 
doubt its being indigenous in this locality. 
R. A. Phillips. 
Cork. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Golden Oriole in County Tjrrone. 
Mr. W. C. Wright records {British Birds, vol. vii., p. 16) the capture of a 
female Golden Oriole, Oriolus galhula, at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. Mr. 
Henry Wilson, by whose dog the bird was caught (not found dead as 
stated by Mr. Wright) informs me that it was one of a party of four which 
were observed in the neighbourhood for a few days only in May. About 
fifty Golden Orioles have been seen or taken in Ireland, almost all in 
maritime counties, and this forms the first bird of this species from Co. 
Tj-rone. 
Nevin H. Foster. 
Hillsborough, Co. Down. 
