PLANTS OF WEST CORNWALL 187 



Bhiiianthns sienophyllus Schur. Sand}^ grassy coast, Marazion. 

 In Davey's Flora only one locality (Penrose, near Helston) is given 

 for it. 



Bumex maximus Sehreb. (JS. HydrolapatJium Huds., var. lali- 

 folius Trimen). We saw this in Mr. Cunnack's station, Gunwalloe 

 Marsh, growing with E. Hi/drolapathum, from which it seemed to 

 differ specifically ; but of course it was only in bud, on June 25th. 



Juncus pyfimceus Kich. In small quantity, on drying mvid, near 

 Euan Pool. Pev. P. P. Murray and I found it plentifully on the 

 Lizard Downs, May, 1886. 



Carex muricaf a, Linn. Herb.! iPnircBi F. Schultz). Abundant 

 on dry roadside banks, just south of Mullion ; recorded by Mr. Druce 

 from between Helston and Porthleven, where I believe that I saw it. 



*C. Leersii F. Schultz! Grassj'- ground by Loe Pool, near Pen- 

 rose Creek. This comes very near to C. muricafa (Paira??), having 

 its short, triangular ligules and remarkably spreading fruit ; though 

 the beak is often a little longer, thus tending towards C. conf/yua 

 Hoppe. It agrees well with the short description of O. eu-muricata, 

 var. fi, ])seudo-divuJsa Syme, English Botany, ed. 3, p. 93, where 

 C muricata^ var. virens Koch is given as a synonym ; but Pfarrer 

 Kiikenthal remarked, on one of my sheets, that " C. virens Koch est 

 inextricabilis ! " New for Cornwall. 



C. helodes Link {iceviyata Sm.). A slender form, with smaller 

 spikelets and fruit than usual — simulating luxuriant inland C distans 

 in habit — grows in a marsh between Grunvvalloe and Cur^'. 



Festuca pratensis Huds. Grunwalloe Marsh. 

 Pihdaria ylohidiftra \t. Near Ruan Pool ; scarce. 



ERNEST DAVID MARQUAND. 



(1848-1918.) 



Ernest David Marquand, who was descended from an old 

 Norman family which settled in the Channel Islands at the close of 

 the twelfth century, was born on February 8th, 1848, at " La 

 Brigade " in the island of Guernsey. His parents, early in the 

 fifties, went to settle in tlie city of New York, where Ernest was 

 educated at one of the large public schools. On returning to England 

 after his father's death, he received a legal training, and for several 

 years held an appointment as confidential secretary to one of the 

 leading firms of London solicitoi's. 



Always a passionate lover of the country, and a born naturalist, 

 he gave up city life in 1876 and went with his mother to reside at 

 Brockenhurst in the New Forest, where he compiled the list of New 

 Forest Phanerogams which was afterwards embodied in Townsend's 

 Flora of Hampshire. In 1879 they moved to Penzance, when for 

 seven years Marquand enjo3'ed the intimate friendship of John Ralfs 

 and William Curnow. He was Honorary Secretary of the Penzance 

 Natural History Society, to whose Transactions he contributed many 

 papers on local Entomology. In 1888, after his mother's death. 



