Japan Flora: Rhizomes loosely tufted, short-creeping; culms nodding, 20-50 cm. long; leaf-blades 3-6 mm. wide, soft, slightly glaucous, the basal sheaths bladeless or short- bladed, not disintegrating into fibers; spikes 4-6, nearly fasti­giate, nodding to pendulous, the terminal one staminate or gynecandrous, 2-4 cm. long, the lateral pistillate, linear- cylindric, pale green, somewhat loosely many-flowered, 3-7 cm. long, the lower peduncled, the lowest bract leaflike, slightly longer to nearly as long as the culm; pistillate scales obovate, pale with brown flecks, emarginate, the broad green midrib prolonged into a short mucro; perigynia nearly twice as long as the scales, 3 mm. long, nerveless, biconvex, very short- beaked with an entire tip; stigmas 2；May-June. Wet places in lowlands and low mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu; common.