533 8-31-30 Carex Fs. (bluff) on side of Butter Blk near mouth. Note: In many cases the perigynium at base of spike bears a slender pedicel at base; in Caelene, this pedicel passes through perigynium & bears another perigynium with developed seed usually by perforating the lower perigynium somewhat and extend- ing very slightly beyond base 2nd perigynium. Perigynia at base of spike which do not pro-liferate as above described (in all cases examined) have a very short member at base of cælene, which might be sediment of the aforementioned pedicel. Usually 4 in 1: Some spikes strictly 3; cælene 2, or stigmas 3; spikes 2 or more; per. not rigidly identical, terminal false or otherwise; lower foliaceous bract with prominent claw green above (all plant except basal low now brown from age); per. nerved if caespitose (as seems almost certain), per. with leaf def. shorter than body. Glen to 7½ in high, erect, very slender, smooth, clinate but not angled, naked ex cæpet — X. Base glume with few short low brown can’t decide whether “canaliculate” or “dull pale already remains of former if sheathed base looks more likely than it really is because of young shoots). Low dark green, glabrous, edges smooth in pans slightly rounded at tip, firm, not involute, acuminate & grooved toward tip, blunt at very tip.