to 3 1/2 in long x 2-2.5mm wide. ♀ spikes 9-12 mm long on filiform drooping peduncles. At top of culm a bract (blade no longer than infl) sheaths a peduncle of ♀ spike, another inconspicuous bract which similarly sheathes peduncle & bract of a second ♀ spike & peduncle of the 10 spikes (or if 8 ♀ spikes at top of culm there is 1 more sheathing bract like 1st but smaller. Often there is also a ♀ spike with pedicel in sheathy bract about 2 cm (1 case 6.5 cm) below top of culm & sometimes the culm innates (being entirely naked bears this lower bract altho no spikes issues from it) ♀ spikes 4-6 few fld (12), loosely (but per. def) or clasp. Pes. smooth, brown, 3+mm long, flattish below, rounded above, the culm tip curved outward & sometimes downward. (20 x 5)per. shows fine markings wwhich would be called striations or veins) Scales 1/2-3/4 as long as pes. def to study (ia. t. s.) seem very thin & to adhere to pes., not awned. R.B.K...thinks she remembers Carex (perstitus?) & similar proliferating pseudogynia from same place 1939 but no record found 1930. Albene def. 3-2.8, 1.7mm high, gray- ish brown, dull & not quite smooth. Stigmas disjoined, 8-31-30? Scirpus paniculatus Lagliff. Moths Butter Rd