8-4-37 ♂spike. Culms almost naked but at very base are dead lvs (perhaps late seasons) similar to the lv on the new(sterile) shoots. These lv's 10 or gone inches high x 2mm wide, bright green, glabrous, smooth, flat. ♂spike 1 and entirely ♂ (in all the 10 spec. C.R.) 11-13 mm long, conspicuous on a renifluid ped. 8 4-5cm. ♀ spikes [illegible] 3 distant, the lowest often below middle) culm. (In 2 spec, which seem to have only 2 ♀ spikes, a third on a filiform peduncle 4-6 in long issues from base culm. N.B. Either spec may have had similar basal spikes as this could be easily destroyed in collect- ing) Bracts all sheathing with short lf-like hilda. Lowest (culm) bract has sheath 2-2½ cm x blade 1-2 cm. Blades all shorter than spikes. Sheaths + dead grass color but as some blades have same dead effect prob. this color not significant as key. ♀ spikes on filiform ped. equal to only slightly longer than sheaths so that spikes are erect or strongly ascending not at all drooping. ♀ spikes intially ± 1cm long (in one case 2 cm long), lonely fld (an effect which height- ed by the fact that many achenes are not maturing) beakles + oval or elliptical, obtuse(or lowest acute but never sharp-pointed or awn-tipped) with a broad green mid-rib x broad brown hyaline edges, ½ as long as mature perigynia. Perigynia 5mm over all, plump (with no flat